Although it might seem like the most bizarre thing in the universe right now is the 2016 presidential election, the universe is big enough that, statistically, there must be something weirder ...

Researchers found seven stars in our galaxy that might host alien megastructures called Dyson spheres. But these stars' strange behavior could also be explained by other phenomena, like clouds of dust ...

An artist’s depiction of 51 Pegasi b, a giant planet is about half the size of Jupiter. Share Most of the time, stars are pretty predictable. Our telescopes plot their brightening and dimming, usually ...

Freeman Dyson, a renowned physicist and mathematician, has died at 96, his daughter Mia told Maine Public Radio. Dyson was a British-born physics professor at Princeton. He worked on nuclear reactors, ...