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In the night sky for March of 2022, only stars and the Moon, not planets, will greet you. The real show, however, arrives just before dawn.
Considering the astronomical occupational risks, life insurance was prohibitively expensive for the first NASA astronauts.
The space telescope’s findings challenge the notion of a galaxy brimming with life.
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
JWST just found its first transiting exoplanet, and it’s 99% the size of Earth. But with no atmosphere seen, perhaps air is truly rare.
Bend it. Stretch it. Use it to conduct electricity.
Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?
Alchemy had its golden age in the 17th century, when it counted Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle among its adherents.
Scientists track down a puzzling early burst of oxygen on Earth.
And why, even at its faintest, it always outshines every other star and planet. If you’ve been looking to the west after sunset recently, you may have noticed that there’s one […]
An army of replicators belonging to national laboratories, research universities, and amateur garages is rushing to replicate ambient superconductivity in LK-99.
How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.
Finding a tiny planet around bright stars dozens or hundreds of light-years from Earth is extremely difficult.
The classic picture of Jupiter’s great rocky core might be entirely wrong.
The first observational evidence showing the Universe is expanding is 100 years old now: in 2023. Here’s the story of its 100th anniversary.
No matter how you define the end, including the demise of humanity, all life, or even the planet itself, our ultimate destruction awaits.
In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That’s not the full story.
So far, two papers have been retracted, and a third is under investigation. Accusations of plagiarism appear convincing.
Despite all that we’ve learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could “God” be the answer?
When the average person has a “theory,” they’re just guessing. But for a scientist, a theory is the pinnacle of what we can achieve.
There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our Standard Model of cosmology into question. Here’s what they really mean.
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!
Following the advent of human space flight, NASA began naming missions after children of Zeus.
The Solar System isn’t a vortex, but rather the sum of all our great cosmic motions. Here’s how we move through space.
The “first cause” problem may forever remain unsolved, as it doesn’t fit with the way we do science.
The Earth that exists today wasn’t formed simultaneously with the Sun and the other planets. In some ways, we’re quite a latecomer.
All across the Universe, planets come in a wide variety of sizes, masses, compositions, and temperatures. And most have rain and snow.
From life on Earth to the planet itself, there are four ways our planet will actually experience “the end,” no matter how we define it.
Our understanding always will remain incomplete.