Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who will deliver the Royal Irish Academy 2025 Hamilton Lecture, on his lifelong quest to ...

W elcome to the only martini bar in the universe that looks like a Doctor Who fever dream. There’s the galaxy of stars and all that glitters built into the bartop itself; martini deftly served anyway ...

Astronomers using NASA data have found seven stars in our galaxy emitting unexplained infrared radiation, a potential indicator of Dyson spheres, theoretical structures envisioned to surround stars ...

Lacki’s study, “Artificial Broadcasts as Galactic Populations,” has been posted to the preprint science journal arXiv. In it, ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket and Groot to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, 2014’s "Guardians of the Galaxy" also spotlighted the Nova Corps, the military/police force for the planet Xandar. As such, that ...

One of the most notable properties of the giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—are the ...

Humans are finally building the technology that could tell us where to look, when to look, and what signs to watch for. What ...

Tatooine may exist in a galaxy far, far away—but its origins are rooted in the real sands of Tunisia, in North Africa.

Astronomers spotted the celestial standoff in the heart of the galaxy OJ287, around five billion light-years from Earth.

Astronomers have made an exciting breakthrough in the search for the universe’s most mysterious substance—dark matter. They ...

Honourable omissions include Michael A Stackpole’s X-Wing trilogy, Drew Karpyshyn’s Dark Bane novels, Claudia Gray’s ...