It started with a bang, but won’t end with one. Instead, it will “rage against the dying of the light” like nothing you’ve ever imagined.
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The Solar System isn’t a vortex, but rather the sum of all our great cosmic motions. Here’s how we move through space.
Visionaries from Socrates to Steve Jobs have touted curiosity as an essential quality. Here’s how to supercharge your spirit of inquiry.
Einstein’s laws of gravity have been challenged many times, but have always emerged victorious. Could wide binary stars change all that?
According to bushido, your life is of secondary importance to key virtues, like honor, loyalty, and justice.
Our Solar System’s outer reaches, and what’s in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.
Depression can cause you to think too much — and physically sense too little.
If you have an old TV set with the “rabbit ear” antennae, and you set it to channel 03, that snowy static can reveal the Big Bang itself.
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.
The space telescope’s findings challenge the notion of a galaxy brimming with life.
Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
Planets can be Earth-like or Neptune-like, but only rarely are in between. This hot, Saturn-like planet hints at a solution to this puzzle.
Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.
Since 1930, type Ia supernovae have been thought to arise from white dwarfs exceeding the Chandrasekhar mass limit. Here’s why that’s wrong.
We knew we’d find galaxies unlike any seen before in its first deep-field image. But the other images hold secrets even more profound.
The Te’omim Cave in the Jerusalem Hills is filled with skulls and oil lamps — objects a new study says may have been used in dark rituals.
National Geographic’s first James Webb Space Telescope book shows us the cosmos like never before.
The first stars in the Universe were made of pristine material: hydrogen and helium alone. Once they die, nothing escapes their pollution.
Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.
The mass that gravitates and the mass that resists motion are, somehow, the same mass. But even Einstein didn’t know why this is so.
As Uranus approaches its solstice, its polar caps, rings, and moons come into their best focus ever under JWST’s watchful eye. See it now!
Even with leap years and long-term planning, our calendar won’t be good forever. Here’s why, and how to fix it.
Some ozone experts seriously doubt the findings.
In special relativity, the statement that two events happened at the same time is meaningless.
Happiness is not a five-star holiday. It’s often the result of struggle — and asking for help, as author Stephanie Harrison recently told Big Think.
Gamma-ray bursts are so powerful they could vaporize the Earth from 200 light-years away. Recreating them in the lab is not easy.