Space & Astrophysics

We’ve now detected hundreds of gravitational waves with LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA. What if we tried Weber’s original method in the modern day?

The first world beyond Earth for human habitability should be the Moon, not Mars. This is why we should terraform our lunar neighbor first.

Times dilate and lengths contract near the speed of light. Bizarre and confusing? Sure. But under relativity, it can’t be any other way.

Stellar streams are faint trails of stars that appear to “stream” out of galaxies. A new one, escaping galaxy M61, may point to many others.

When dying, Sun-like stars have binary companions, spectacular sights arise from the ionization. JWST spots the Red Spider Nebula in action!

There’s some, but not overwhelming, evidence that dark energy is evolving. What would it take for a “Big Crunch” to be our cosmic fate?

Scientists are notoriously resistant to new ideas. Are they falling prey to groupthink? Or are our current theories just that successful?

Physicist Daniel Whiteson challenges the notion that all intelligent species would eventually uncover the same laws of nature. Do you agree?

Nearly 100 years after being theorized, the strange behavior of the neutrino still mystifies us. They could be even stranger than we know.

The planet, the Solar System, and the galaxy aren’t expanding. But the whole Universe is. So where does the dividing line begin?

For 13.8 billion years, the Universe has been expanding. But that couldn’t have been the case for an eternity, and science has proven it.

Dark matter has never been directly detected, but the astronomical evidence for its existence is overwhelming. Here’s what to know.

We’ve long known we can’t go back to infinite temperatures and densities. But the hottest part of the hot Big Bang remains a cosmic mystery.

Red dwarfs are the Universe’s most common star type. Their flaring now makes potentially Earth-like worlds uninhabitable, but just you wait.

Found by Hubble before JWST’s launch, GNz7q looked like a mix of a galaxy and a quasar. Was it actually our first known “little red dot”?

Observations with the Hubble space telescope helped cement dark energy and reveal the Hubble tension. How are these two things so different?

“Think of it like a transcontinental railroad — not the fastest way to move a lot of mass, but certainly the most efficient,” Jared Isaacman said about nuclear electric propulsion.

Solar power has the disadvantage that there’s no Sun at night. Satellite startup Reflect Orbital wants to change that, but at what cost?

Inflation’s two main criticisms, that it can predict anything and that the “measure problem” remains unsolved, can’t erase its successes.

The Orionids meteor shower peaks October 20th/21st here in 2025, coinciding with a new Moon. See the brightest shooting stars of the year!

To learn how our Universe grew up, we have to look at large numbers of galaxies at all distances to find out. Good thing we have JWST!

Our Sun only arose after 9.2 billion years of cosmic history: with many stars living and dying first. How many prior generations were there?

Since the time of Galileo, Saturn’s rings have remained an unexplained mystery. A new idea may have finally solved the longstanding puzzle.

In 2025, Earth remains the only planet where life is known to exist. Without a second example, “The Stand” has a vital lesson to teach us.

By deeply imaging a large volume of space, COSMOS-Web provides JWST’s widest cosmic views. Its gravitational lenses reveal a big surprise.

As the Universe ages, it continues to gravitate, form stars, and expand. And yet, all this will someday end. Do we finally understand how?

From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?

As October begins, thousands of longtime NASA employees are leaving the agency. 4000+ will exit by January 9, 2026, changing NASA forever.

Proposed over 2000 years ago by Democritus, the word atom literally means uncuttable. Revived in 1803, today’s “atoms” can indeed be split.

From the Big Bang to a prior period of cosmic inflation, our cosmic origins are clearer than ever. Yet these 5 big mysteries still remain.