Finding life beyond our Solar System requires understanding its host planet.
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Humans won’t survive if we stay on Earth. Michio Kaku explains.
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It could cut the time needed to reach Mars in half.
In the night sky for March of 2022, only stars and the Moon, not planets, will greet you. The real show, however, arrives just before dawn.
The properties of a ghostly particle called a neutrino are coming into focus.
The largest hazardous asteroid found in the last 8 years showcases a little-known class of planet-killers. And we’re woefully unprepared.
CERN’s NA64 experiment used a high-energy muon beam technique to advance the elusive search for dark matter, offering new hope for solving one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries.
Our Sun will continue to grow, becoming a red giant and then a planetary nebula. Here’s how large it will get.
Archaeologist Bernard Frischer spent decades uploading the ruins of the Eternal City to the cloud. Here’s what it looks like.
Scientists can make substantial progress without fully understanding exactly what they’re doing.
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.
The idea of black holes has been around for over 200 years. Today, we’re seeing them in previously unimaginable ways.
By studying the dwarf galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte ~3 million light-years away, JWST reveals the Universe’s star-forming history firsthand.
A new book by historian and author Paul Strathern argues that the Northern European Renaissance has long been overlooked.
In all of human history, only 5 spacecraft have had the right trajectory to exit the Solar System. Will they ever catch Voyager 1?
The paper does not prove the existence of dark matter, but it mostly eliminates a rival theory called Modified Newtonian Dynamics.
The evidence that pollution causes cancer is weak. Lifestyle factors, like smoking, obesity, and alcohol, matter far more.
The Universe is grand, awe-inspiring, and greater than we likely imagine. Even astrophysicists get anxious thinking about it, but we cope.
Pluto failed to meet the definition of a planet, but some astronomers think there might be a legitimate Planet 9 out there.
Science is for everyone, even those possessing strongly held beliefs that seem to conflict with the best available evidence.
Within the next few decades, we may well have hard evidence for the existence of alien life on worlds light-years distant from Earth.
Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.
Light can be turned into heat, which can then be turned into motion, and the effect of that motion can be turned into a big squeeze.
Despite the enormous mass of the Earth, simply depleting our groundwater is changing our axial tilt. Simple Newtonian physics explains why.
When supermassive black holes merge, they emit more energy than anything else to occur in our Universe except the Big Bang.
Speculation about the existence of aliens goes all the way back at least to the Greek philosophers. Their arguments will sound familiar.
With its first view of a protoplanetary disk around a newly forming star, the JWST reveals how alone individual stellar systems truly are.
Meet the people paid to rouse the workers of industrial Britain.
These theoretical megastructures represent one way an advanced civilization might harvest energy from stars.
