Tag Archives: astronomy

Life in the Cosmos

The Search for Life SMART NEWS See the Messages NASA Will Send to Space on [...]

Neuroscientist David Eagleman on What Is Possible in the Cosmos

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, author, and entrepreneur. He heads the Laboratory for Perception and Action at [...]

Guy Consolmangno, the Vatican’s Chief Astronomer, on Balancing Church With the Cosmos

Brother Guy Consolmagno is the director of the Vatican Observatory and president of the Vatican [...]

Fifty Things We’ve Learned About the Earth Since the First Earth Day

.main h1 { max-width: 750px; margin: auto; } When Gaylord Nelson stepped up to the [...]

Photos Capture the Great South American Eclipse

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Meet the Global Team That Captured the First Image of a Black Hole

From time to time, a new picture of outer space changes our understanding of the [...]

Ten Celestial Events You Don’t Want to Miss in 2020

Every year, meteor showers dazzle viewers, eclipses reveal the orbital balance of our planet with [...]

Spitzer’s 16 Years of Scanning the Cosmos

Robert Hurt, a visualization scientist working for the Spitzer Space Center, is taking the decommission [...]

Launching Hope to Mars

The Hope spacecraft of the United Arab Emirates’ Emirates Mars Mission during testing. This month, [...]

The Moon: Before We Knew

The waxing gibbous Moon as we viewed it on December 3, 2011. Voyages to Mars [...]

Ten Celestial Events to Look Forward to in 2021

In 2020, astronomers observed Comet Neowise streak through the sparkling night sky, a total solar [...]

What to Know Before Perseverance Lands on Mars

Since it launched on July 30 last year, a rocket bearing NASA’s Perseverance Rover has [...]

Harriet Tubman Is Famous for Being an Abolitionist and Political Activist, but She Was Also a Naturalist

Harriet Tubman successfully navigated her own escape from slavery, and then led dozens of others [...]

The Wonder of Avi Loeb

Abraham Loeb knows how improbable it is that he’s here. First, there had to be [...]

The Five Big Ways the James Webb Telescope Will Help Astronomers Understand the Universe

The James Webb Space Telescope, the much anticipated, revolutionary newcomer to the pantheon of space [...]