Category: Astronomy

Not far from the cosmic neighborhood of our own solar system, just 124 light-years away,…

Far beyond the soft swirl of our Milky Way, hidden in the dim outskirts of…

In 2015, astronomer Tabetha Boyajian and her team pointed their telescopes toward a star nearly…

In the vast silence of the cosmos, nearly five billion years ago, a swirl of…

From the moment Earth first coalesced out of cosmic dust 4.5 billion years ago, one…

Long before Earth spun into existence, before oceans shimmered or mountains rose, before life dared…

Long before telescopes scanned the heavens and equations etched the fabric of space-time, humans stared…

For as long as humanity has gazed at the night sky, we have been enchanted…

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

On a clear, moonless night, far from the glow of city lights, a pale river…

On a still, ancient night long before telescopes, before electricity, even before civilization learned to…

Since time immemorial, humanity has gazed at the night sky with wonder and curiosity, asking…

The solar system, as it appears to most of us, feels like a familiar place.…

In 1967, a young Cambridge graduate student named Jocelyn Bell Burnell was poring over miles…

There was a time when humanity believed the universe had always existed. Infinite. Eternal. Static.…

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

In the vast darkness between stars, hidden in the glare of their suns, countless worlds…

Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe—regions where gravity becomes so intense…

Space-time: the stage upon which the entire cosmos performs its grandest drama. Since Einstein revolutionized…

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

For as long as humanity has looked up at the stars, we have asked the…

If you step outside on a clear night and look up, what you see—stars scattered…