Category Archives: Space
There Are Probably Way More Earth-Like Exoplanets Than We Imagined
A new analysis indicates that 22% of Sun-like stars harbor planets roughly the size of [...]
Curiosity Found Evidence of An Ancient Freshwater Lake on Mars
A closeup of one of the rocks, with a patch of dust brushed away by [...]
The Moon Belongs to No One, but What About Its Artifacts?
Charles “Pete” Conrad stands with the United States flag on the lunar surface on November [...]
What Does the Future of the Universe Hold?
The Andromeda Galaxy NASA It is remarkable how often the origin of things is tied [...]
After Ten Years on Mars, Here Are the Most Beautiful Photos Taken by the Rovers
/ A false-color image of the Martian area called Home Plate, with colors used to [...]
Why Carl Sagan is Truly Irreplaceable
Illustration by Jody Hewgill We live in Carl Sagan’s universe–awesomely vast, deeply humbling. It’s a [...]
Top 10 Travel Destinations for An Astronomy Geek
Observing the center of the Milky Way at Paranal Observatory. Wikipedia Mauna Kea Observatory—Hawaii, USA [...]
What Will Extraterrestrial Life Look Like?
It is time that we drop Hollywood’s humanoid view of extraterrestrials. In reality, David Aguilar [...]
The Search for Life Across the Universe
The planet Kepler-22b, shown in this artwork, is the right size and distance from its [...]
The Story of NASA’s Jet-Propulsion Backpack
From the National Air and Space Museum / Udvar-Hazy Center. Dan Winters It’s an astronaut’s [...]
Art and Science Collide in the Discovery of the Higgs Boson
PARTICLE FEVER – Official Trailer (2014) HD Watch on What do ancient cave paintings, Renaissance frescoes [...]
Listening to the Big Bang
Less than a mile from the South Pole, the Dark Sector Lab’s Bicep2 telescope (at [...]
Sara Seager’s Tenacious Drive to Discover Another Earth
Trent Bell Two months shy of turning 40, the MIT astronomer Sara Seager decided to [...]
Preparing for the Next Step in Manned Spaceflight
/ Bill Stafford / NASA / At Norfolk Naval Base, the Orion test replica was [...]
Was Shakespeare Aware of the Scientific Discoveries of His Time?
Galileo Demonstrating Telescope © Bettmann/CORBIS You could read the line in Hamlet about shuffling off [...]