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The intensely white coloration of the shrimp is a remarkable feat of bioengineering.

The idea of black holes has been around for over 200 years. Today, we’re seeing them in previously unimaginable ways.

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.

In all of human history, only 5 spacecraft have had the right trajectory to exit the Solar System. Will they ever catch Voyager 1?

With its first view of a protoplanetary disk around a newly forming star, the JWST reveals how alone individual stellar systems truly are.

Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein are locked in an eternal battle over the nature of gravity. Whose side are you on?

Since 1930, type Ia supernovae have been thought to arise from white dwarfs exceeding the Chandrasekhar mass limit. Here’s why that’s wrong.

Particles behave differently when freed from the force of gravity. A new space factory aims to use this to synthesize pharmaceuticals.

Depression can cause you to think too much — and physically sense too little.

Our Sun will continue to grow, becoming a red giant and then a planetary nebula. Here’s how large it will get.

National Geographic’s first James Webb Space Telescope book shows us the cosmos like never before.

In a world without clocks, people used common activities in place of time units. How long it took you to go to the toilet mattered.

U.S. particle physicists recently recommended a list of major research projects that they hope will receive federal funding.

Pluto failed to meet the definition of a planet, but some astronomers think there might be a legitimate Planet 9 out there.

Speculation about the existence of aliens goes all the way back at least to the Greek philosophers. Their arguments will sound familiar.

Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.

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.

Visionaries from Socrates to Steve Jobs have touted curiosity as an essential quality. Here’s how to supercharge your spirit of inquiry.

How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.

Looking at our planet with post-Copernican eyes has the power to change how we relate to it and each other.

Astronomers in 2017 caught an image of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy far, far away. Doing it in our own galaxy is a huge milestone.

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.

Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.

In the 20th century, many options abounded as to our cosmic origins. Today, only the Big Bang survives, thanks to this critical evidence.

Foster your own moments of mystery.

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.

If you want to understand what the Universe is, how it began, evolved, and will eventually end, astrophysics is the only way to go.

But make sure you bring the fossegrim the proper offering—or else.

All telescopes are fundamentally limited in what they can see. JWST reveals more distant galaxies than Hubble, but still can’t see them all.