Astronomy
Our Guide to This Month’s Total Solar Eclipse Over South America
2020 closes out with the final eclipse of the decade, as totality crosses the southern tip of South America on…
Solid Phosphorus has been Found in Comets. This Means They Contain All the Raw Elements for Life
Did comets deliver the elements essential for life on Earth? It's looking more and more like they could have. At…
Neutrinos Have Played a Huge Role in the Evolution of the Universe
Neutrinos are a form of dark matter, and they play a role in the evolution of the universe.
In the Far Future, Stellar Flybys Will Completely Dismantle the Solar System
Consumption and disintegration. Next time you want to be the life of the party—if you're hanging out with cool nerds…
Spiral-shaped Planetary Disks Should Be More Common. Giant Planets Might Be Disrupting Their Formation
Planetary system formation is a process that involves astounding and complex forces. Humans have only just started trying to understand…
One of These Pictures Is the Brain, the Other is the Universe. Can You Tell Which is Which?
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in…
A third of the stars in the Milky Way came from a single merger 10 billion years ago
Ten billion years ago the young Milky Way survived a titanic merger with a neighboring galaxy, eventually consuming the whole…
A new way to map out dark matter is 10 times more precise than the previous-best method
Astronomers have to be extra clever to map out the invisible dark matter in the universe. Recently, a team of…
Every Year NASA Simulates Our View of the Moon for the Upcoming 12 Months. Here’s 2021, Hour by Hour
There's no real reason most of us need to know what the Moon will look like on any particular day…
Astronomers See a Newly Forming Planetary Disk That’s Continuing to Feed On Material from its Nebula
Over the last few years, astronomers have observed distant solar systems in their early stages of growth. ALMA (Atacama Large…