Total eclipses are a product of a strange and almost eerie cosmic coincidence — one that makes Earth an even rarer world in the galaxy and, by proxy, in the Universe.
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The curiosity of children is a national resource. Adults destroy it.
Explore how the study of exoplanets is transforming our understanding of ocean formation.
Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, has a message for up-and-coming leaders: Embrace the mess!
If you put very fine black powder powder in a confined space it explodes in a cloud of heat, gas and noise.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been a controversial diagnosis since it was first described, back in the 1940s.
A recent study overviews the thinnest X-ray detector ever created.
With a new telescope on the horizon, we reflect on the best pictures of space that came before.
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
In 1990, we only knew of the ones in our Solar System. Today, we know of thousands, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Steam cars hit the U.S. market in the 1890s but were largely extinct by the 1930s. Will technology bring them back?
With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.
The big question isn’t whether the Universe is expanding at 67 or 73 km/s/Mpc. It’s why different methods yield such different answers.
Instead of walking a mile in someone’s shoes, try reading a chapter in their book.
Police forces are choosing humans over algorithms to make some identifications.
Quantum mechanics has taught us that even empty space contains energy. “Negative energy” is the state of having less energy than empty space.
Both journalists have put themselves in danger to shed light on corruption and abuses of power in their home countries.
The way we imagine and listen to melodies sheds light on imagination.
The universe is only 13.8 billion years old, but we can see back 46.1 billion light-years. Here’s how the expanding universe does it.
Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but when it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is a lot to be learned about our brains and ourselves.
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Astronomers used supercomputers and an international network of antennas to create the stunning map.
The idea of “absolute time” was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate.
Quantum communication offers a surer path to sending an interstellar message, as well as receiving one. But can we do it?
Every timekeeping device works via a version of a pendulum — even the atomic clocks that are accurate to nanoseconds.
Seventy-five years after the anomaly’s discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.
The DUNE project will beam tiny neutrinos across vast distances. But the first step involved moving a heavier material: 1 million tons of rock.
As we look to larger cosmic scales, we get a broader view of the expansive cosmic forest, eventually revealing the grandest views of all.
If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?
Cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.
This biochemist is determined to create a new life form by reversing the shape of molecules.