Astronomy
7,500 Light-Years From Earth, A Cat’s Head Appears
A beautiful new NASA image of the Carina Nebula
A Collapsing Star Produced an Afterglow Brighter Than Its Galaxy
“The explosion packed roughly a billion years of the sun’s energy output into a pencil-thin beam”
“We Will Find a Graviton Before We Find Dark Matter”
A quantum information scientist on the hunt for the elemental mediator of gravity and why AI can’t solve physics problems creatively
Dead Star Offers a Glimpse Into Our Solar System’s Future
A ring of debris hints at planetary survivors
Cloudy With a Chance of Incineration: Predicting Weather on Distant Worlds
How scientists decode climate light-years away
This Dark Spot on the Moon Might Be a Giant Lunar Cave
NASA wants to explore it—perhaps as a potential moon base?
Was This the Exact Date of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”?
Astronomers look beyond the stars in search of Van Gogh’s inspiration
63 Years Ago This Week, Félicette Became the First Cat in Space
She’s still the only feline to have the honor
Are Our Hearts Strong Enough to Get to Mars?
Prolonged space travel can wreak havoc on the circulatory system
“It Feels Like Something Out of Science Fiction”: Astronomers Find First Green Star
The universe just got a little more colorful
