Category: Astronomy

When we gaze up at the night sky, it’s easy to feel alone. Our planet spins in the cold darkness…

On clear nights, when the moon hides and city lights are far away, the heavens unveil something breathtaking—an arch of…

On a still, ancient night long before telescopes, before electricity, even before civilization learned to write, someone looked up at…

Since time immemorial, humanity has gazed at the night sky with wonder and curiosity, asking the same profound question: Are…

The solar system, as it appears to most of us, feels like a familiar place. There is the glowing Sun,…

In 1967, a young Cambridge graduate student named Jocelyn Bell Burnell was poring over miles of data from a brand-new…

There was a time when humanity believed the universe had always existed. Infinite. Eternal. Static. Unchanging. Philosophers like Aristotle held…

The night sky has always whispered questions to those bold enough to listen. For as long as humans have tilted…

In the vast darkness between stars, hidden in the glare of their suns, countless worlds are spinning—alien planets with strange…

Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe—regions where gravity becomes so intense that nothing, not even light,…

Space-time: the stage upon which the entire cosmos performs its grandest drama. Since Einstein revolutionized physics in the early 20th…

We live on a small, spinning rock orbiting an average star, in a galaxy among hundreds of billions, inside a…

For as long as humanity has looked up at the stars, we have asked the same haunting question: Are we…

If you step outside on a clear night and look up, what you see—stars scattered like jewels, galaxies wheeling through…

There are places in the universe so strange, so violently mysterious, that even light itself cannot escape them. They are…

For most of human history, the night sky was the ceiling of our dreams. Ancient stargazers mapped the heavens in…

Before time could tick and before space could stretch, there was nothing—no stars, no atoms, not even emptiness. It wasn’t…

Before time existed, before space stretched in any direction, before atoms or stars or even the whisper of energy —…

For centuries, humans have looked up at the night sky with wonder, pondering an age-old question: Are we alone? The…

On a silent Christmas morning in 2021, from a launchpad in French Guiana, a golden-eyed spacecraft soared skyward. Wrapped in…

When we look up at the stars, we aren’t seeing them as they are. We are seeing them as they…

We gaze up at the night sky and see light. Galaxies glisten like cosmic cities scattered across the vast tapestry…