You might think Jupiter is large, but you’ll be surprised at what happens if you try and make it larger! “A few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and […]
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Very sure. Here’s how we know. You’ve no doubt heard that the Universe itself has been around for 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang, and that scientists are extremely confident […]
The Earth is round, Kyrie Irving. But not every world needs to be. “‘I’ll follow him to the ends of the earth,’ she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn’t have […]
As if the north pole of Saturn weren’t weird enough already. “Cassini is different — it’s a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated […]
The most elusive naked-eye planet is downright impossible to view for billions of us on Earth. “I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without […]
A very small person asks a very big question: why aren’t the moons of gaseous planets also made of gas?
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What would energy without a particle to attach itself to even look like? “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on […]
Before we go venturing off to another star to look for life, why not look here? “If I had to describe myself to an alien I’d say I was bigger than […]
Elon Musk announces that SpaceX will fly two private citizens on a mission around the moon in 2018.
Now we know, on every scale. “There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without […]
65 million years, an impact wiped out 30% of all life on Earth. Could another one be imminent? “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” […]
After nearly 20 years in orbit around Saturn, Cassini prepares to say goodbye. “All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, […]
Why are we so hung up on Pluto’s planetary status? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson urges us to get over it already!
Life may not be a rarity after all, but the result of a certain set of conditions.
More massive is bigger, less massive is smaller, right? That’s not even half the story. “Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced […]
This mission will also help us better understand the core of our and other terrestrial planets, too.
Churchill displays a surprising amount of knowledge on a question that we are still wrestling with.
Its unique method of creating energy is likely to be employed elsewhere in the space program.
Alpha Centauri A and B are just 4.37 light years away. Do they have planets around them? And possibly life? We just might find out! “Resources exist to be consumed. And […]
There’s a lot to learn about other worlds, but you can’t learn it all without looking up. “One should not need a teleportation device to decide whether a newly discovered object […]
A small, icy planet with a weirdly elliptical orbit has been discovered beyond Pluto.
The mission might set a precedent for exploring bodies of water on other moons and worlds as well.
With gift ideas from as little as $11, there might be something to tickle anyone’s fancy. “It is worthy of notice that in Table VI the brighter variables have the longer […]
It’s bigger than anything on Earth. Hell, it’s bigger than Earth! “More days to come / new places to goI’ve got to leave / it’s time for a showHere I am […]
Carl Sagan was one of the people who helped shape this recording that might just end up in the hands of some other beings, somewhere out there.
Something isn’t right about the Universe without something extra. So why can’t scientists agree on what that “extra” thing is? “All we know so far is what doesn’t work.” –Richard Feynman […]
They’re even more spectacular in the close-up detail it delivers. “This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of […]
With James Webb and WFIRST launching soon, the Universe can expect a revolution. But what will it look like? “For the first time we can learn about individual stars from near […]
If we left on New Years Day, how close could we get if we kept accelerating every second of every day? “The very closest stars would require many years to visit, […]
A live-blog event happened a week ago, but you can catch the entire thing anew here, right now! “We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in […]