In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.
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Scientists can make substantial progress without fully understanding exactly what they’re doing.
A new book by historian and author Paul Strathern argues that the Northern European Renaissance has long been overlooked.
The Universe is grand, awe-inspiring, and greater than we likely imagine. Even astrophysicists get anxious thinking about it, but we cope.
Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.
When supermassive black holes merge, they emit more energy than anything else to occur in our Universe except the Big Bang.
Despite the enormous mass of the Earth, simply depleting our groundwater is changing our axial tilt. Simple Newtonian physics explains why.
Archaeologist Bernard Frischer spent decades uploading the ruins of the Eternal City to the cloud. Here’s what it looks like.
The paper does not prove the existence of dark matter, but it mostly eliminates a rival theory called Modified Newtonian Dynamics.
The evidence that pollution causes cancer is weak. Lifestyle factors, like smoking, obesity, and alcohol, matter far more.
Finding life beyond our Solar System requires understanding its host planet.
Within the next few decades, we may well have hard evidence for the existence of alien life on worlds light-years distant from Earth.
In the 20th century, many options abounded as to our cosmic origins. Today, only the Big Bang survives, thanks to this critical evidence.
Light can be turned into heat, which can then be turned into motion, and the effect of that motion can be turned into a big squeeze.
The properties of a ghostly particle called a neutrino are coming into focus.
CERN’s NA64 experiment used a high-energy muon beam technique to advance the elusive search for dark matter, offering new hope for solving one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries.
The Solar System isn’t a vortex, but rather the sum of all our great cosmic motions. Here’s how we move through space.
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin’s work: 40 years later.
Our Solar System’s outer reaches, and what’s in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.
Foster your own moments of mystery.
The recently discovered Oort cloud comet, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, has the largest known nucleus: 119 km. Here’s what it could do to Earth.
Meet the people paid to rouse the workers of industrial Britain.
There is no such thing as a void in the Universe.
These theoretical megastructures represent one way an advanced civilization might harvest energy from stars.
The intensely white coloration of the shrimp is a remarkable feat of bioengineering.
Roger Babson wanted a “partial insulator, reflector, or absorber of gravity” — something, anything, that would stop or dampen it.
Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
It started with a bang, but won’t end with one. Instead, it will “rage against the dying of the light” like nothing you’ve ever imagined.
As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery… consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
Particles behave differently when freed from the force of gravity. A new space factory aims to use this to synthesize pharmaceuticals.