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At least one of Earth’s creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.

Everything everywhere all at once.

Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?

Following the advent of human space flight, NASA began naming missions after children of Zeus.

Eyes with lower pigment (blue or grey eyes) don’t need to absorb as much light as brown or dark eyes before this information reaches the retinal cells. This might provide light-eyed people with some resilience to SAD.

The DART mission tested whether it’s possible to deflect an asteroid by crashing something into it.

“Even with my training, I still got insights from the book’s descriptions. That’s how good Carroll is at explaining physics.”

Try this: It’s about 10 times the number of cups of water in all the oceans of Earth.

If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.

AI software is rapidly accelerating chip design, potentially leveling up the speed of innovation across the economy.

This short story is a fictional account of two very real people — Anaximander and Anaximenes, two ancient Greeks who tried to make sense of the universe.

We frequently say it’s 2.725 K: from the light left over all the way from the Big Bang. But that’s not all that’s in the Universe.

It peaks the nights of August 11–13, but it’s no longer the year’s most reliable meteor shower. Every year, beginning in mid-July, planet Earth commences passing through an enormous debris […]

Just like with AI, people worried about job security and the spread of disinformation. Machines were destroyed and book merchants were chased out of town.

But it’s still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.

A philosophical debate spanning creation, free will, and a sneaky teapot.

Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.

We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.

Leap years will only get us through the next few thousand years before we have to fix it. With every year that passes, we assume that two separate things will both […]

With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.

Steam cars hit the U.S. market in the 1890s but were largely extinct by the 1930s. Will technology bring them back?

Galaxies can have regions both hotter and colder than the background radiation of the Universe. When we talk about the depths of space, we get this picture in our heads […]

You might think it’s impossible to run out of wind, but Europe’s “wind drought” proves otherwise. And it’s only going to get worse.

In the spirit of the 1969 moon landing, we now have a golden opportunity to pursue “nondisruptive” creative solutions.

When stars form, they emit energetic radiation that boils gas away. But it can’t stop gravitational collapse from making even newer stars.

Recent research suggests that Earth’s magnetic field bounced back just as complex life was starting to emerge on our planet.

What we’ve learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.

In all of science, no figures have changed the world more than Einstein and Newton. Will anyone ever be as revolutionary again?

In 2006, Pluto was demoted in a very controversial decision. Unless you ignore nearly all of planetary science, it’ll never be one again.

One book will gather all topics on the search for life in the Cosmos.