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We all see beauty the same way.

As viewed by the MeerKAT telescope, this radio view of the Milky Way blows away every other way we've ever seen our home galaxy.

Once science operations begin for James Webb, we'll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here's what everyone should know.

Hubble, our greatest space-based observatory today, is just the beginning. The Hubble Space Telescope has been astronomy’s most revolutionary observatory in history. The stars and galaxies we see today didn’t […]

Deepfakes featuring your digital double could replace emails and zoom presentations.

Previously, only the brightest and most active galaxies could pierce the obscuring wall of cosmic dust. At last, normal galaxies break through.

With a new telescope on the horizon, we reflect on the best pictures of space that came before.

Hubble revolutionized astronomy more than once. Here's what we can expect from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Movie soundtracks don't just help us recall the plot of a film; they also allow us to better understand its meaning.

Can ChatGPT help you power through writer's block?

Astronomers have been looking for radio waves sent by a distant civilization for more than 60 years.

The study identified superhabitable planets outside of our solar system.

Standard probiotics cannot compare to the diversity that your microbes have.

We’ve almost got the entire story. James Webb will put the last piece into place. In all of science, there are really only two ways that something can be “known” to […]

The early colonists thought they were being pulled by God into a void left by plague.

Are we really only a moment away from "The Singularity," a technological epoch that will usher in a new era in human evolution?

After more than two decades of precision measurements, we've now reached the "gold standard" for how the pieces don't fit.

The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.

Think you can hide your feelings pretty easily?

William Shatner is going to space because Jeff Bezos loves Star Trek.

With advanced laser technology and an appropriate sail, we could accelerate objects to ~20% the speed of light. But would they survive?

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will truly usher in a new era of astronomy. If you want to find the very first galaxy of all, you have to understand not […]

Without a little help from Einstein, we couldn’t have made this discovery. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, still churns out novel discoveries. The Hubble eXtreme Deep […]

Now that it's fully commissioned, the James Webb Space Telescope begins its exploration of the Universe. Here are its first science images!

The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.

Its record-holding galaxy is 32 billion light-years away, in a Universe that’s only 13.8 billion years old. On April 24, 2020, humanity celebrates the 30th anniversary of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. […]

The Universe’s idea of a ‘typical star’ has changed dramatically over time. When you look out at the Universe today, you’re not seeing it exactly as it is at one particular […]

Black holes aren't just the densest masses in the Universe, but they also spin the fastest of all massive objects. Here's why it must be so.

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 […]

“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”