The Universe changes remarkably over time, with some entities surviving and others simply decaying away. Is this cosmic evolution at work?
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The cosmic scales governing the Universe are almost unbelievably large. What if we shrunk the Sun down to be just a grain of sand?
In theory, dark matter is cold, collisionless, and only interacts via gravity. What we see in ultra-diffuse galaxies indicates otherwise.
Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.
As far as we know, it’s only happened once to one unlucky person in Oklahoma.
Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?
The way that the ancient Megalodon adapted to water temperature has important implications for modern marine creatures.
Wind energy is one of the cleanest, greenest sources of power. But could it have the sneaky side-effect of changing the weather?
2023 will see the launch of new rockets, the return of OSIRIS-REx, and a mission to Jupiter that could help us find extraterrestrial life.
Contrary to common experience, not everything needs a medium to travel through. Overcoming that assumption removes the need for an aether.
How the search for alien life is taking place right here in our own Solar System. If you want to understand the origin of life in the Universe, you have three […]
We know more about the universe than what is beneath our feet. But Earth’s mantle holds subtle clues about our planet’s past.
It’s on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity’s place in the world. Citizen science can help.
Asteroid collisions aren’t always bad.
If humanity lives in an otherwise barren Universe, we’ll have to forge philosophy that fills the void.
Finding out we’re not alone in the Universe would fundamentally change everything. Here’s how we could do it.
Because of dark energy, distant objects speed away from us faster and faster as time goes on. How long before every galaxy is out of reach?
The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don’t affect humans in any way.
The far side of the Moon is incredibly different from the Earth-facing side. 63 years later, we know why the Moon’s faces are not alike.
Strange underwater icicles form in the Earth’s coldest regions and freeze living organisms in place.
The monsoon rains were not always so reliable.
Lake Baikal holds nearly one-fourth of Earth’s fresh surface water and is the most scientifically interesting lake on our planet.
Spiritual experiences can be explained in terms of a highly evolved brain. But they also can be extremely meaningful.
On long-haul flights, some airlines show shipwrecks on their in-flight maps. The aim is to entertain; the result is often to horrify.
Scientists captured it on footage 1.5 miles below the surface.
We’re still using 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid a year, but burials are becoming far less common.
With LEDs bringing brighter nighttime lighting than ever before, and thousands of new satellites polluting the skies, astronomy needs help.