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The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.

2023 will see the launch of new rockets, the return of OSIRIS-REx, and a mission to Jupiter that could help us find extraterrestrial life.

An out-of-this-world idea could help reduce some of the risk of solar geoengineering.

The most common element in the Universe, vital for forming new stars, is hydrogen. But there’s a finite amount of it; what if we run out?

“The Da Vinci Code” popularized the idea that Christians stole much of their theology. It’s wrong, especially regarding Christmas.

The far side of the Moon is incredibly different from the Earth-facing side. 63 years later, we know why the Moon’s faces are not alike.

Hubble revolutionized astronomy more than once. Here’s what we can expect from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Yes, the magnetosphere is weakening. It does that from time to time.

Most waves need a medium to travel through. But the way that light and gravitational waves travel shows that space can’t be a medium at all.

Two parts of our Universe that seem to be unavoidable are dark matter and dark energy. Could they really be two aspects of the same thing?

Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past the limits of our atmosphere.

From Einstein to Twain, Garson O’Toole investigates the truth behind your favorite — and often misattributed — quotes.

Created in the 1880s, “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan,” which depicts a father murdering his son, divides Russians to this day.

The stars, planets, and many moons are extremely round. Why don’t they take other shapes?

In 1995, Hubble peered at the Pillars of Creation, forever changing our view. Now in 2022, JWST completes the star-forming puzzle.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will study many dangerous cosmic phenomena, knowledge of which may help save humanity.

Taught in every introductory physics class for centuries, the parabola is only an imperfect approximation for the true path of a projectile.

Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.

The “scientific Buddha” and the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism with regard to science are modern creations.

Despite all that we’ve learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could “God” be the answer?

Contrary to common experience, not everything needs a medium to travel through. Overcoming that assumption removes the need for an aether.

Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists better understand the universe.

The near and far sides of the Moon are so different from each other, and no one is sure why. New lunar samples could confirm a wild theory.

Tiny fluctuations in old Kepler data reveals four runaway planets that are reminiscent of Earth.

Earth is the Solar System’s only known inhabited planet. Could Venus, if its phosphine signal is real, be our second world with life?

The new record-holder opens up a literal Universe full of possibilities. Someday, even our own Sun will eventually run out of hydrogen fuel in its core, bringing a tremendous set […]

It has no moving parts and could allow us to tap into renewable energy year round.

If the laws of physics are symmetrical as we think they are, then the Big Bang should have created matter and antimatter in the same amount.

Online Shinto communities have existed since the birth of the internet as we know it.

More than 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican societies conducted one of history’s most interesting experiments in commodity money.