Category: Astronomy

For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we’ve wondered: Are…

Imagine a universe drenched in darkness. No stars twinkling in distant skies, no galaxies swirling…

Have you ever gazed up at pictures of Saturn, its gleaming rings stretching out like…

When we gaze up at the night sky, what do we see? Tiny points of…

In the vast, silent theater of space, a rare class of cosmic wanderers makes a…

The universe is a grand, unfolding epic of creation and destruction, a stage where stars…

Imagine looking up at the night sky and realizing something is wrong. The stars seem…

Deep in the vast blackness of space, where the rules of life and death play…

Among the countless wonders of the universe, few events are as spectacular—or as terrifying—as hypernovae.…

Imagine a future where humanity—or some distant, hyper-advanced civilization—has grown so powerful, so energy-hungry, that…

Two years into its mission, the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope is living up…

Sixty-six million years ago, Earth was thriving in the Late Cretaceous Period. Dinosaurs roamed forests…

On a clear night, away from the glare of city lights, the sky transforms into…

Imagine a vast, icy realm, so distant from Earth that even light, traveling at 186,000…

Imagine one peaceful evening, you look up at the sky. The stars are twinkling, as…

Since the dawn of humanity, we’ve asked the biggest question imaginable: Where did everything come…

Far beyond the blue sky, past the twinkling stars that decorate our night, beyond the…

In a discovery that’s shaking up our understanding of the early universe, two teams of…

Imagine peering deep into the cosmos and uncovering a tiny, ancient city, one that has…

For decades, scientists have gazed into the vastness of space and wondered about a mysterious…

Imagine taking the entire mass of our Sun—around 330,000 times the mass of Earth—and cramming…

For as long as humans have tilted their heads to gaze at the night sky,…