These distant cousins of starfish live on sea floors around the globe.
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On the largest scales, galaxies don't simply clump together, but form superclusters. Too bad they don't remain bound together.
First picture of worldwide bee distribution fills knowledge gaps and may help protect species.
If dark matter exists in a large halo in our galaxy, made up of particles, then it's passing through us constantly. But how much?
Our Sun will continue to grow, becoming a red giant and then a planetary nebula. Here's how large it will get.
Gravitation, all on its own, can reveal what's present in the cosmos like nothing else.
From wearable electronics to microscopic sensors to telemedicine, new advances like graphene and supercapacitors are bringing "impossible" electronics to life.
And which ones are probably examples where we’ve fooled ourselves? Every once in a while — multiple times per year — a new research finding fails to line up with our theoretical expectations. In […]
You’re gonna die, cloud! All stars, even our Sun, will someday eventually die. After burning on the main sequence for billions of years, the Sun will expand into a red giant, […]
The four-color theorem was one of the past century's most popular and enduring mathematical mysteries.
The inevitable long, slow decline is accelerating, and there’s nothing we can do. The Universe, as it is today, is less active, is forming fewer stars, and is creating fewer chances […]
Entropy always increases, but that doesn’t mean it was zero to start with. One of the most inviolable laws in the Universe is the second law of thermodynamics: that in any […]
Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to […]
We once thought the Moon was completely airless, but it turns out it has an atmosphere, after all. Even wilder: It has a tail of its own.
Gyms and fitness centers are closed, but your living room is always open.
Phobos and Deimos only have two explanations, and neither one adds up.
50% of stars are in Sun-like ‘singlet’ systems. The planetary nebulae we see just don’t line up. Around 7 billion years from now, our Sun’s life will end. As the Sun […]
No matter how your year went, Hubble’s views of the Universe never disappoint. Year after year, Hubble’s telescopic views are unparalleled. Saturn, its rings, and 5 of its moons are […]
If you thought it was just one rich region in space, look deeper and wider. Shining brilliantly in January’s skies is the Great Orion Nebula. By 10 PM every night in […]
Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.
The move reflects a broader nationwide effort to lower prices of the life-saving drug.
A 2020 study published in the journal of Psychological Science explores the idea that fake news can actually help you remember real facts better.
He lost his passion for poetry and other aesthetic, spiritual interests.
The last image puts it all in perspective. Compared to what we find in our Solar System, galaxies are truly enormous. The Sun may be 109 times the diameter of […]
The dream of zero resistance is closer than you may think. One of the biggest physical problems in modern society is resistance. Not political or social resistance, mind you, but electrical […]
Maybe 100% of stars don’t have planets, after all. When stars form in the Universe, they’re created in giant bursts. A stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy […]
On larger and larger scales, many of the same structures we see at small ones repeat themselves. Do we live in a fractal Universe?
Have any of the stars we can see burned themselves out completely? When we look out across the Universe, we’re also peering back in time. In the early 21st-century, we’ve […]
Playing and being creative shouldn't stop when you grow up.