While the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing is an opportunity to celebrate a remarkable technological...
Space
In the space beyond Earth’s atmosphere, countries are focusing on nationalist pursuits and ignoring the consequences for...
It has been 10 years since Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the commercial space age. What hurdles must...
Is there hope humanity will once again push beyond Earth? By Ryan P. Smith Few moments in...
America had completed a series of successful launches into space and achieved many firsts well before Sputnik....
Artist depiction of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. By Mopic/shutterstock.com An asteroid on a collision course with Earth is inevitable. Astronomer...
It is theoretically possible that habitable planets exist around pulsars – spinning neutron stars that emit short,...
A new approach to dating the birth of our solar system could help find other similar systems. Flickr/Dmitry...
Imagined view from Kepler-10b, a planet that orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the Kepler spacecraft...
By Dr. Martin Rees / 03.14.2018 Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics University of Cambridge Soon after...
As long as clouds don’t get in the way, the view should be spectacular. NASA Goddard By Dr....
Fig 1 By Dr. Frank Wilczek / 12.11.2015 Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
NASA By Paul Gilster / 04.08.2016 The human future in the cosmos could be all but limitless,...
The Biosphere 2 complex is an earth system science research facility near Tucson, AZ. / Photo by...
Huge ice sheets discovered on Mars could mean human exploration of the planet is closer than scientists...
This artist’s concept shows the most distant supermassive black hole ever discovered. It is part of a...
Complex nature. Photo by Alan L/Flickr By Dr. Martin Rees / 12.01.2017 Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics...
Artist’s concept of interstellar asteroid 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) as it passed through the solar system after its...
In a galaxy far away, two dead stars begin a final spiral into a massive collision. The...
GHOST IN THE SHELL – What looked like an ordinary supernova, shown in this artist’s illustration, might...
Image from NASA By Azriel ReShel / 11.09.2017 All photos credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran Witness the Beauty of...
John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, Portrait by John Greenhill, c.1670 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Romeo Vitelli...
Map of all matter – most of which is invisible dark matter – between Earth and the...
Illustration of hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from the neutron stars just before they collided. NASA’s...
A group of astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy – which are travelling...
Relative positions of distant spacecraft. / NASA, JPL Caltech By Dr. Michael Strauss / 02.22.2017 Professor of...
An illustration of Cassini diving between Saturn and the planet’s innermost ring. NASA/JPL-Caltech By Dr. Tanya Hill /...
‘A movie camera to watch the whole universe’; an artist’s conception of the LSST inside its dome...
Footage from the Apollo 11 moonwalk that was partially restored in 2009. / NASA 07.20.2017 July 1969....
Detail from an impressionistic poster of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system. / Amanda Smith, IoA By Dr. Amaury...