Astronomy
How Many Ways Can the Sun Kill You?
The Sun has a Swiss army knife of ways it can do you in, from radiation to solar flares. And…
Rare and Beautiful Noctilucent Clouds Wow Over Holland – Gallery
A trio of talented Dutch astrophotographers have captured a series of magnificent views of the rare and beautiful phenomena known…
Why Universe Today Writes on Climate Change
Online science reporting is difficult. Never mind the incredible amount of work each story requires from interviewing scientists to meticulously…
Bill Nye on Taking Astronomy with Carl Sagan
"This is how we know nature. It is the best idea humans have ever come up with." – Bill Nye,…
Landmark Discovery: New Results Provide Direct Evidence for Cosmic Inflation
Astronomers have announced Nobel Prize-worthy evidence of primordial gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of spacetime — providing the first…
SOFIA Gives Scientists a First-Class View of a Supernova
Astronomers wanting a closer look at the recent Type Ia supernova that erupted in M82 back in January are in…
Nearby Stream of Stars Reveals Past Cosmic Collision
The tangled remains of vast cosmic collisions can be seen across the universe, such as the distant Whirlpool Galaxy’s past…
New Technique Finds Water in Exoplanet Atmospheres
As more and more exoplanets are identified and confirmed by various observational methods, the still-elusive "holy grail" is the discovery…
Zooniverse Reaches One Million Volunteers
Zooniverse — the renowned home of citizen science projects — is now one million strong. That’s one million registered volunteers…
Experts Question Claim Tunguska Meteorite May Have Come from Mars
In 1908 a blazing white line cut across the sky before exploding a few miles above the ground with a…