A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke,…
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When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true. But according to an idea doing the rounds on…
Could humans expand beyond their homeworld and establish settlements on the planet Mars? The idea of settling the red planet…
It is as humbling as it is motivating to think about how much we still have to learn about the…
Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions…
Off the coast of Baja California in December 2022, sun sparkled over the rippling sea as waves sloshed around the…
We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life can…
NASA’s Artemis missions will mark the space agency’s first manned return to the lunar surface since 1972 but that return…
The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike…
Slowly repeating bursts of intense radio waves from space have puzzled astronomers since they were discovered in 2022. In new research,…