Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for stargazers to catch a glimpse of the band of billions of stars. "Milky Way season," when the galaxy's ...

The odds of discovering another Earth are looking slimmer than once believed. A growing body of evidence suggests that truly Earth-like conditions are rare, and complex life even rarer, perhaps to the ...

(Phys.org)—A pair of astrophysicists studying gamma ray bursts has found that such events might play a much larger role in the existence of life on Earth and other planets than has been thought. In ...