If our Universe were born a little differently, there wouldn’t have been any planets, stars, galaxies, or chemically interesting reactions.
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Across all wavelengths of light, the Sun is brighter than the Moon. Until we went to the highest energies and saw a gamma-ray surprise.
Some think the reason fundamental scientific revolutions are so rare is because of groupthink. It’s not; it’s hard to mess with success.
JWST has seen more distant galaxies than any other observatory, ever. But many candidates for “most distant of all” are likely impostors.
Science continues to amplify our view of reality.
If the evolution of the Universe is a movie, what happens when we rewind it all the way backward?
Thanks to time-traveling telescopes, we can see more about the Big Bang
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“Superhabitable” planets might be real, but Earth is probably as good as it gets.
Astronomers used supercomputers and an international network of antennas to create the stunning map.
Quantum entanglement may remain spooky, but it has a very practical side.
The cosmic microwave background offers clues.
All human development, from large cities to small towns, shines light into the night sky.
The first supernova ever discovered through its X-rays has an enormously powerful engine at its core. It’s unlike anything ever seen.
In the latest edition of the Starts With A Bang podcast, we talk with soon-to-be Dr. Arianna Long about galaxies, from birth to today.
Exoplanet LP 791-18d is likely to have an atmosphere and liquid water.
It may be time for a cosmological paradigm shift.
Burns’ latest documentary dives into the long-romanticized life and work of the Italian polymath.
Dinosaurs and other beasts were once thought to be the “undisputed masters” of Venus.
The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form — and hope for another spot to search for life.
“What modern science has taught us is that life is not a property of matter.”
Move over, IC 1101. You may be impressively large, but you never stood a chance against the largest known galaxy: Alcyoneus.
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
You are trapped in time. You never live in the world as it is but only as you experience it as it was.
There was a lot of hype and a lot of nonsense, but also some profoundly major advances. Here are the biggest ones you may have missed.
In just a few seconds, a gamma-ray burst blasts out the same amount of energy that the Sun will radiate throughout its entire life.
The strongest tests of curved space are only possible around the lowest-mass black holes of all. Their small event horizons are the key.
What do the dark recesses of the early Universe and Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom have in common? More than you could have ever hoped for.
The key problem with the dark matter hypothesis is that nobody knows what form dark matter might take.
We are still new at this.