How Visiting Venus Will Help Us Find Life on Distant Planets
What Venus can teach us about planets far beyond our own solar system
What Venus can teach us about planets far beyond our own solar system
New observations of a stellar explosion have revealed a surprise that could point to the trigger behind these violent, yet mysterious, eruptions
After a journey of more than four decades, Voyager 2 has passed beyond the sun’s influence
Scientists now have a second example of a strange stellar phenomenon speculatively linked to extraterrestrial intelligence in 2015
Why we are probably the only intelligent life in the galaxy
New results from the gravitational wave observatory hint that black holes move in mysterious ways
Our neighborhood of planets was not created slowly, as scientists once thought, but in a speedy blur of high-energy crashes, destruction and rebuilding
Astronomers have found what may be two supermassive black holes in a quasar due to become one in roughly 21 years
Seeing Saturn through a telescope can leave a ringing in one's ears
This week offers skywatchers an opportunity to catch a rare glimpse of Mercury and to spot Jupiter at its biggest and brightest
The enigmatic origins of chondrules—tiny inclusions in most meteorites—may be revealed at last, thanks in part to pristine material returned to Earth from asteroid Ryugu
Jane Luu, an astronomer, Kavli Prize laureate and Visiting Professor at Boston University, explores the frontiers and biggest questions in our solar system and others with Steve Mirsky, Contributing Editor for Scientific American...
Physicists at the LIGO experiment have now detected 11 cosmic events that produce ripples in the fabric of space-time
Astronomers peer inside planetary nurseries for clues about how our solar system and others came to be
A viewing calendar for what to see in the February and March night sky
Science in meter and verse
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