The most iconic, longest-lived space telescope of all, NASA’s Hubble, is experiencing orbital decay as the solar cycle peaks. Here’s why.
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Is LK-99 truly a room temperature superconductor? These 4 tests, none of which have yet been passed, will separate fact from fiction.
The Universe is expanding, and the Hubble constant tells us how fast. But how can it be a constant if the expansion is accelerating?
No matter how you define the end, including the demise of humanity, all life, or even the planet itself, our ultimate destruction awaits.
In the future, you might voluntarily share your social media data with your psychiatrist to inform a more accurate diagnosis.
Astronomers claim to have found structures so large, they shouldn’t exist. With such biased, incomplete observations, perhaps they don’t.
Standard probiotics cannot compare to the diversity that your microbes have.
Today, supermassive black holes and their host galaxies tell a specific story in terms of mass. But JWST reveals a different story early on.
The contact binary system KIC 9832227 is worth another look. Astronomers have seen some incredible occurrences across space and time. The nova of the star GK Persei, shown here in an […]
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On December 19 1972, astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the Apollo 17 lunar mission. They were the last people to travel […]
Role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons offer a valuable insight: Life is about shifting labels.
With LEDs bringing brighter nighttime lighting than ever before, and thousands of new satellites polluting the skies, astronomy needs help.
Automation technologies manufacture goods or provide labor with minimal human intervention. They can trace their origins as far back as the 16th century—and arguably further—but didn’t take off until the […]
“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
The golden rule of self-compassion: Treat yourself with the same kindness you treat others.
New documents confirm that the government agency—one of many—has been using a tracking company.
Big dreams and big telescopes are back at last, but everything depends on sufficiently funding NASA, the NSF, and the DOE.
Research suggests that emotional intelligence is more vital for success than IQ.
The cause of Alzheimer’s is still not fully understood, but we might be able to vaccinate against it anyway.
Hubble, our greatest space-based observatory today, is just the beginning. The Hubble Space Telescope has been astronomy’s most revolutionary observatory in history. The stars and galaxies we see today didn’t […]
Dark matter hasn’t been directly detected, but some form of invisible matter is clearly gravitating. Could the graviton hold the answer?
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‘Fast Optical Bursts’ will confound ground-based astronomy. As of 2021, planet Earth is currently experiencing the least pristine night sky in recorded history. Prior to the development of artificial lighting, […]
Many planets will eventually be devoured by their parent star. For the first time, we caught a star in the act, eating its innermost planet!
A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.
Compassionate leadership is what differentiates good from great leaders during crisis.
For decades, theorists have been cooking up “theories of everything” to explain our Universe. Are all of them completely off-track?
Congratulations to Penrose, Ghez and Genzel, and to black hole enthusiasts everywhere. On October 6, 2020, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded towards research in black holes. 50% of […]
There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life’s final extinction will occur.