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“If we find just one other example of biology out there, then life is not an accident.”

This oddball system of three stars might be our best chance at finding nearby life in the Universe.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will study many dangerous cosmic phenomena, knowledge of which may help save humanity.

There are billions of potentially inhabited planets in the Milky Way alone. Here’s how NASA will at last discover and measure them.

On July 12, 2022, NASA will release the first science images taken with the James Webb Space Telescope. Here’s what to hope for.

An optical telescope with a massive 20-foot (6-meter) mirror has an eye-popping price tag of $11 billion.

Space weather poses a tremendous threat to all satellites, knocking all computer systems offline. Is that a recipe for Kessler syndrome?

The Big Bang theory is not threatened, but astrophysicists have some explaining to do.

At 1,600 light years away, the black hole is practically in our cosmic backyard.

Former spacewalker Mike Massimino tells Big Think how NASA missions shaped great leaders.

Mike Bechtel, chief futurist with Deloitte Consulting LLP, joins Big Think for a wide-ranging look at what’s next — and why.

Explore how the study of exoplanets is transforming our understanding of ocean formation.

In 1054, a core-collapse supernova occurred 6500 light-years away. In 2023, JWST imaged the remnant, and might solve a massive mystery.

Ever since the Big Bang, cataclysmic events have released enormous amounts of energy. Here’s the greatest one ever witnessed.

Most potentially hazardous asteroids remain unidentified. NEO surveyor could change that, but only if it’s funded, and soon.

The James Webb Space Telescope has chosen 5 targets for its first science release. Here’s what we know on the eve of JWST’s big reveal!

Should we be searching for life on other planets, or technology?

Fire was crucial to the evolution of human technology. That’s why alien species stuck in the “oxygen bottleneck” may be forever primitive.

From the tablets of the Babylonians to the telescopes of modern science, humans have always looked to the skies for fundamental answers.

Some fascinating observations of K2-18b have come along with horrendous, speculative communications. There’s no evidence for oceans or life.

To study the origin of the Universe, we could build a constellation of six expensive spacecraft — or we could just use the Moon.

With its very first deep-field view of the Universe now released, the James Webb Space Telescope has shown us our cosmos as never before.

“The X-Files” was not a documentary.

Seven years ago, an outburst in a distant galaxy brightened and faded away. Afterward, a new supermassive black hole jet emerged, but how?

The midwest is particularly filled with them.

Thanks to time-traveling telescopes, we can see more about the Big Bang.

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

The James Webb Space Telescope could help scientists learn about the cosmic dark ages and how they ended.

The light from Earendel took 12.9 billion years to reach Hubble. The star is millions of times brighter than our Sun and 50 times as massive.

Here’s what recent DESI measurements suggest — and why it’s too early to update conventional predictions about the Universe’s distant future.