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Many planets will eventually be devoured by their parent star. For the first time, we caught a star in the act, eating its innermost planet!
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin’s work: 40 years later.
The golden rule of self-compassion: Treat yourself with the same kindness you treat others.
Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
Paintings played an important role in these ancient civilizations. Unfortunately, pigment is not nearly as durable as marble.
If you said “with the Big Bang,” congratulations: that was our best answer as of ~1979. Here’s what we’ve learned in all the time since.
Graphical user interfaces are how most of us interact with computers, from iPhones to laptops. But they were once condemned as making students lazy and destroying the art of writing.
The giant impact theory suggests our Moon was formed from proto-Earth getting a Mars-sized strike. An exoplanet system shows it’s plausible.
There are many problems with relying on SAT and ACT scores for college admissions. But removing them entirely creates less opportunity.
The best evidence for dark matter is astrophysical and indirect. Do new lensing observations point to ultra-light, wave-like dark matter?
A Harvard astronomer went to the bottom of the ocean, claiming he recovered alien technology. But what does the science actually indicate?
Digitized logbooks from the 1800s reveal a steep decline in strike rate for whalers.
Mathematics and religion both embody awe-inspiring, eternal truths.
If we succeed in contacting them, will that seal humanity’s doom? One of the most wondrous questions of all concerns our place in the Universe. After 13.8 billion years of […]
Research suggests that emotional intelligence is more vital for success than IQ.
And, if we have one, how close are we to it? No matter which direction we look in, or how far away our telescopes and instruments are capable of seeing, the […]
If it weren’t for a subatomic quantum rule, our Universe would be vastly different. In many ways, our views of the distant Universe are the closest things we’ll ever get […]
We confidently state that the Universe is known to be 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here’s how we know.
The Earth that exists today wasn’t formed simultaneously with the Sun and the other planets. In some ways, we’re quite a latecomer.
When you’re a genius, how do you make ends meet?
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” Steinbeck writes.
People may be more willing to get vaccinated when told how popular it is.
Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here’s why we don’t buy it.
These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.
For thousands of years, we puzzled at how far away the Moon was. Today we know its distance, at any time, to within millimeters.
We’d like to think that judging people’s worth based on the shape of their head is a practice that’s behind us.
In terms of the planets we’ve discovered, super-Earths are by far the most common. What does that mean for the Universe?
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
But the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope compels us to add, “so far.” Beginning with its 1990 launch, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized our conception of the Universe. This photo of […]