Astronomy
Fiery Crash of SpaceX Rocket Causes Huge Lithium Plume
It’s the first known direct detection of upper-atmospheric pollution from space debris re-entry
Why This Region of Space Appears to Be Populated by Snowmen
New research offers an elegant explanation
Did Astronomers Finally Witness a Black Hole Eat a White Dwarf for the First Time?
Analysis of a violent, unprecedented cosmic outburst
Pulsar Found Near the Center of the Milky Way Could Test Einstein’s Theories
A cosmic timekeeper near a supermassive black hole has astrophysicists salivating
The Cosmic Collision That Formed Saturn’s Rings
Computer simulations offer new insights into the oddities of the ringed planet’s moons
Hubble Captures the Egg Nebula in Stunning Detail
New images from the Hubble Space Telescope show a nebula in transition
The Many Myths of the Blood Moon
What people throughout the world and across time have made of lunar eclipses
Did We Just See a Black Hole Explode?
An “impossible” neutrino detected by an underwater telescope could be the key
The Farm Boy Who Found Pluto
Despite its demotion from planet status, the tiny but mighty world still captivates scientists
Grad Student Homebrews Cosmic Dust in the Lab
“It’s like we have recreated a little bit of the universe in a bottle in our lab”
Ann Druyan on How NASA’s Golden Records Got Made
A comic about humanity’s love letter to interstellar space
