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A young, nearby, massive star, whose protoplanetary disk appears perfectly edge-on, was just viewed by JWST, with staggering implications.

Here in our Solar System, terrestrial bodies get moons from gravitational capture or collisions. The Pluto-Charon system? It was both.

It’s deceptively tricky to distinguish living systems from non-living systems. Physics may be key to solving the problem.

Seeking life beyond the Solar System, we first look to the closest star systems with Earth-like planets. Here’s why that’s not good enough.

Out beyond Neptune are some fascinating bodies left over from our Solar System’s formation. Could one of them truly be spectacular?

For now, our Solar System’s eight planets are all safe, and relatively stable. Billions of years from now, everything will be different.

This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.

The structure of our Solar System has been known for centuries. When we finally started finding exoplanets, they surprised everyone.

Valles Marineris is the Solar System’s grandest canyon, many times longer, wider, and deeper than the Grand Canyon. What scarred Mars so?

Due to chaos, it was long thought that planets couldn’t stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first counterexample.

Here in our Solar System, we only have one star: a singlet. For many systems, including the highest-mass ones, that’s anything but the norm.

A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.

Finding life beyond our Solar System requires understanding its host planet.

Beef production is largely responsible for greenhouse gas emissions from the food system.

From size to mass to density and more, each world in our Solar System is unique. When we compare them, the results are truly shocking.

The carbon market and offsetting system have created “carbon cowboys” and perpetuated forms of neo-colonialism and other inequities.

From the coldest planets to spacecraft that have exited the Solar System, these little-known facts stump even many professional astronomers.

Functional complex systems arise from functional simple systems. Failing to heed this advice can and will lead to disaster.

The second law of thermodynamics is an inviolable law of reality. Here’s what everyone should know about closed, open, and isolated systems.

It temporarily puts the immune system on high alert to prevent MRSA, pneumonia, and other infections in the hospital.

A National Center for Data and Evidence could supplement our archaic and expensive system and more accurately measure AI’s impact on jobs.

Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist — Frederik Pferdt — lays out a map for navigating unprecedented change and innovation.

“We can build AI scientists that are better than we are… these systems can be superhuman,” says the FutureHouse co-founder.

New radiocarbon dating reveals astonishing insights.

A new technique that can automatically classify phases of physical systems could help scientists investigate novel materials.

Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.

By designing smart systems, we can help ourselves live up to our best intentions — and perform even better in our workplaces.

Hawking’s refusal to upgrade his communication system preserved a voice that became iconic, not just for its sound, but for the profound identity it conveyed.

The road from Kant to modern cognitive psychology has taught us much about our mental filtering systems.

The expanding Universe, in many ways, is the ultimate out-of-equilibrium system. After enough time passes, will we eventually get there?