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Astronomy

Forget “Earth-Like” Worlds

Why we’ll first find aliens on eyeball planets.

February 20, 2015

Don’t Write Off ET Quite Yet

It’s true that we haven’t seen alien life, but neither have we seen much of the universe.

December 17, 2014

A Quick Spin Around the Big Dipper

See how the night sky would appear from a different part of the galaxy.

October 31, 2014

What’s 250 Million Light-Years Big, Almost Empty, and Full of Answers?

Astronomers are using new tools in their search for cosmic voids.

July 31, 2014

NASA Is Going to Dip This Cup Into the Sun’s Corona

A 2018 mission will send a probe to within 4 million miles of the sun.

June 25, 2014

The Astronomer Royal

Lord Martin Rees tells us about black holes and existential risks.

June 9, 2014

Ingenious: Gregory Laughlin

An astrophysicist looks into the future and the distance.

April 25, 2014

When the Earth Had Two Moons

A new model—“The Big Splat”—explains the strange asymmetry of the moon.

April 25, 2014

Ingenious: Edwin C. Krupp

“Astronomy is almost nothing but the story of light.”

March 27, 2014