astronomy

It’s lonely to be an exceptional planet.

A breakthrough in understanding exoplanets.

The director of the Griffith Observatory revisits the dawn of astronomy.

A MacArthur “genius grant” winner writes a new lunar origin story.

Elon Musk wants to engineer Mars’ atmosphere. Can he?

The old tale about science versus the church is wide of the mark.

How the emptiness of the void got filled.

How to measure the Earth with shadows.

How to terraform a room-temperature Mars in 100 years.

A dispatch from the future of extreme sports.

The high technology that could help us live through the sun’s inevitable transformation.

An astrophysicist sits down with Nautilus to discuss cosmology and culture.