The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This ...

In 1988, Leonid Shakdov developed the first detailed stellar engine model ... about 1.8 solar masses and the propellant as ...

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

A novel theoretical model based on universal expansion and star formation suggests that our universe might not have the ...