On May 12, 2022, astronomers on the Event Horizon Telescope team released an image of a black hole called Sagittarius A* that…
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Satellites help run the internet and television and are central to the Global Positioning System. They enable modern weather forecasting, help…
Space is hard. If it wasn’t, everyone would be doing it. Space is also expensive, which is why the major…
When a star explodes and dies in a supernova, it takes on a new life of sorts. Pulsars are the…
If a person is lost in the wilderness, they have two options. They can search for civilization, or they could…
Have you ever made a mistake that you wish you could undo? Correcting past mistakes is one of the reasons…
With the COVID-19 pandemic, the field of telemedicine has taken on the challenge of improving the way doctors can reach…
Almost 400 years ago, in The Assayer, Galileo wrote: “Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe … [But the…
When astronomers dream of their ideal telescopes, it’s not that different to what people want from their TVs and computer…
How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had…