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This oddball system of three stars might be our best chance at finding nearby life in the Universe.

The far infrared reveals both the coldest and hottest gas in the Universe, and can teach us what no other wavelength range can.

Even with all the recent impacts we’ve seen, it might be more “foe” than “friend” to us.

How did the troughs form?

Neptune holds records in our Solar System, but the Universe gets even faster. Here on Earth, extreme weather events can cause dramatic wind speed spikes. When hurricanes are at their most […]

There are dozens of learning and development conferences to choose from each year. Here are 10 of the most popular, along with what makes them unique.

65 million years ago, an asteroid strike caused the 5th great mass extinction. Could we save Earth, today, from a similar event?

A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.

If you want to find life in the Universe, this is how you do it. When it comes to uncovering the ultimate truths about reality, we can only reap what we […]

And why you, a non-expert, should absolutely not consider “explaining what you know” to an actual expert in the field.

It could one day fuel nuclear fusion reactors.

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?

Our Sun will continue to grow, becoming a red giant and then a planetary nebula. Here’s how large it will get.

The detection of two celestial interlopers careening through our solar system has scientists eagerly anticipating more.

The odds are slim, but the consequences would be literally world-ending. There really is a chance of a black hole devouring the Earth.

Gravitation, all on its own, can reveal what’s present in the cosmos like nothing else.

The nearby, bright star Fomalhaut had the first optically imaged planetary candidate. Using JWST’s eyes, astronomers found so much more.

Sound waves behave quite differently on Mars than on Earth.

The results could help NASA’s Perseverance rover find evidence of ancient life on Mars.

At 35 light-years away, it’s also the 2nd coolest, 2nd widest planet ever found. Despite discovering more than 4000 exoplanets, most remain obscure. Although more than 4,000 confirmed exoplanets are known, […]

In terms of the planets we’ve discovered, super-Earths are by far the most common. What does that mean for the Universe?

Thanks to a couple of rovers, we know Mars was once blue.

In one experiment, the Viking landers added water to Martian soil samples. That might have been a very bad idea.

“If we find just one other example of biology out there, then life is not an accident.”

The photometric filters for the Vera Rubin Observatory are complete and showcase why they are indispensable for astronomy.

If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?

The authors call it “wildly theoretical” — but let’s take a look, anyway.

The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, “We were here?”

We are likely to see the first humans walk on Mars this decade.

The space agency describes the process of landing rovers on Mars as “seven minutes of terror.”