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From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.
Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it’s a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.
50% of stars are in Sun-like ‘singlet’ systems. The planetary nebulae we see just don’t line up. Around 7 billion years from now, our Sun’s life will end. As the Sun […]
The story of how Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were made isn’t a universal one. Some gas giants were built different.
An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”
Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.
Just by observing the tiny amount of deuterium left over from the Big Bang, we can determine that dark matter and dark energy must exist.
Today, it’s common knowledge, but it took scientists centuries to figure out.
Most electric car charging is done at night. A grid powered mostly by renewable energy might not be able to meet demand, but there is a solution.
There are ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way, and ~2 trillion galaxies in the visible Universe. But what if we aren’t typical?
From physics and alchemy to theology and eschatology, Isaac Newton’s research was rooted in a personal pursuit of the Divine.
If the past is any guide, things are going to take off quickly.
When you combine the Uncertainty Principle with Einstein’s famous equation, you get a mind-blowing result: Particles can come from nothing.
Even though the brain is only 2% of our total body mass, it consumes up to 25% of our energy.
A new study shows that the Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet is much larger than previously thought — potentially the largest ever spotted.
There are billions of potentially inhabited planets in the Milky Way alone. Here’s how NASA will at last discover and measure them.
The Copernican principle states that Earth is an ordinary planet, but that does not mean that life is ordinary in the universe.
Japanese thought can’t be easily characterized by just a few books — but this essential guide is a great place to start.
What do we mean by a black hole’s size? A photon sphere? The minimal stable orbit? The event horizon? The singularity? Which one is right?
Lord Kelvin is thought to have said there was nothing new to discover in physics. His real view was the opposite.
A Fermilab study confirms decades-old measurements regarding the size and structure of protons.
This storm rained electrons, shifted energy from the sun’s rays to the magnetosphere, and went unnoticed for a long time.
Are the stellar remnants in our cosmic backyard actually our parents and grandparents?
After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!
The Universe isn’t as “clumpy” as we think it should be.