The farther away they get, the smaller distant galaxies look. But only up to a point, and beyond that, they appear larger again. Here’s how.
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A large-scale study from King’s College London explores the link between genetics and sun-seeking behaviors.
Science can teach us so much about our planet, but something more must compel us to take care of it. If you want to understand our planet, the best way to […]
The smallest and faintest stars of all, even the failed stars that didn’t make it, are hiding some fascinating secrets. You might have thought that if we were going to […]
Hubble showed us what our modern day Universe looks like. JWST’s big goal was to teach us how the Universe grew up. Here’s where we are now.
In 1990, we only knew of the planets in our own Solar System. Today, the exoplanet count is more than 5000. Here’s what we’ve learned.
Get the answer from two physicists who study black holes (albeit from a safe distance).
Enough mass in one location will always create a black hole. But not all masses are possible. If you take enough mass and compress it into a small enough volume […]
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
Is science absolute? Its truths and discoveries guide us toward the nature of reality, but we must always remain open-minded to revisions.
The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.
For many years, cosmologists have claimed the Universe is 13.8 billion years old. A new paper says no, it’s 26.7 billion. How do we decide?
It’s one of Einstein’s most bizarre predictions. And it’s true. There’s no such thing as absolute time. No matter where you are, how fast you’re moving, or how strong the gravitational […]
The definitive answer requires better, unbiased data. Despite all the advances that have occurred in human history, one extraordinary puzzle still remains right in our own backyard: we aren’t sure how […]
For the cosmos, it’s all too easy being green. Stars come in a wide variety of colors, but never green. Stars form in a wide variety of sizes, colors and masses, […]
Finding out how the Universe grew up was the biggest science goal of JWST. This ultra-early proto-galaxy cluster is one amazing discovery.
All life forms, anywhere in our Universe, are chemically connected yet completely unique.
Japan just opened to tourists for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, echoing the island country’s isolationist policies during the feudal era.
The German-American cartoonist introduced the idea that Santa Claus traveled with a sleigh and reindeer.
Developing an awareness of and an appreciation for science is what we all truly need, not what we’ve been doing.
Professional astronomy images are the gold standard. But this Large Magellanic Cloud composite is the amateur community’s best image ever.
New studies find the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is the most “pristine” ever discovered.
And if it does strike us, how much damage will it cause? Will near-Earth asteroid Apophis strike us in 2068? Generically, asteroids under ~1 km in size are irregularly shaped, will […]
The new book “Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs” documents 100 archaeological discoveries that changed the world.
Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.
Shooting star or piece of space dust?
Two types of leaves for two different drastic weather conditions.
It had long seemed impossible that supermassive black holes could grow to such enormous sizes. But the biggest problem is now solved.
A new study from NASA and the SETI Institute comes up with an exciting number of potentially life-supporting planets.
When three wise men gifted baby Jesus with gold, frankincense, and myrrh, they had no idea one was made from colliding neutron stars.