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 [...]