NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.
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If the past is any guide, things are going to take off quickly.
Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
We’re used to scientists telling us about the math and physics behind astronomical events. But what does studying space make us feel?
Don’t wait until Christmas to gift a telescope this year. All throughout the year, two bright lights have stood out in the post-sunset skies. Earlier this year, on March 31, 2020, […]
Dead whales inspire a way to find extraterrestrial life on Mars.
“All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
In terms of the planets we’ve discovered, super-Earths are by far the most common. What does that mean for the Universe?
OmnesViae is a modern route planner based on the roads of the Roman Empire.
The solar system has some strange stuff in it. Learning how it ended up that way can tell us where we’re going.
On Earth, carbon can form millions of compounds, while silicon is largely stuck inside rocks. But elsewhere, silicon could form the basis of life.
From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
A new study shows that the Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet is much larger than previously thought — potentially the largest ever spotted.
And what can it teach us about our Solar System’s earliest days? In many ways, astronomy is unique among the sciences. In every other field, you have the ability to design […]
The rings are raining down onto the planet, and disappearing surprisingly fast. 4.5 billion years ago, our Solar System first formed. Protoplanetary disks, which all solar systems are thought to […]
Catch Saturn at its biggest and brightest, and view its rings while you still can. Right now, in Earth’s skies, Saturn appears at its biggest and brightest. A view of tonight’s […]
Ingenuity is remarkable. But these 5 exploration ideas are revolutionary. Telescopes are our initial tools for revealing and studying foreign worlds. Hubble images of Mars, particularly around the regions with […]
A new model of the Antikythera mechanism reveals a “creation of genius.”
Life finds a way — particularly if it has a moon.
Our Solar System’s outer reaches, and what’s in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.
Just say no to artist’s illustrations. This is what the Universe actually looks like. The Universe we observe often surpasses our greatest imaginings. This 20-year time-lapse of stars near the center […]
Despite the Sun’s high core temperatures, particles can’t quite overcome their mutual electric repulsion. Good thing for quantum physics!
We just observed the first ‘lunar formation’ in an exoplanetary system. This one image, above, is the first to show moons actively forming around a planet. This colourful image shows […]
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?
Jupiter’s mysterious auroral events are caused by vibrating waves of plasma.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is often labeled a quintessential Spanish artist, but his allegiance may well have lied with the French Enlightenment instead.
For consumers of festive beverages, the news is bad: this holiday season, Guinness may not be on tap and glass for bottling wine is scarce. Climate disasters, like British Columbia’s floods, have further weakened already […]
The massive craft could carry 100 humans to Mars and revolutionize space exploration.
Sometimes, going “deeper” doesn’t reveal the answers you seek. By viewing more Universe with better precision, ESA’s Euclid mission shines.