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It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
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LIGO can detect the inspirals and mergers of the lowest-mass black holes, but not the biggest ones. Here's how pulsars can help.
1859's Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
Your eyes are playing tricks on you.
Since at least 600 BC, people have been mesmerized by the concept of the infinite.
The discovery calls into question the few things scientists know about these powerful astronomical phenomena.
There are billions of potentially inhabited planets in the Milky Way alone. Here's how NASA will at last discover and measure them.
Do you think you know the Solar System? Here's a fact about each planet that might surprise you when you see it!
With two different black hole event horizons now directly imaged, we can see that they are, in fact, rings, not disks. But why?
When stars form, they emit energetic radiation that boils gas away. But it can't stop gravitational collapse from making even newer stars.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will study many dangerous cosmic phenomena, knowledge of which may help save humanity.
If you think you know how an astronomical nova works, buckle up. You're in for a ride like you never expected.
Earth is the Solar System's only known inhabited planet. Could Venus, if its phosphine signal is real, be our second world with life?
On July 12, 2022, NASA will release the first science images taken with the James Webb Space Telescope. Here's what to hope for.
The James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin science operations. Here's what astronomers are excited about.
We've only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.
Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?
The observable Universe is 92 billion light-years in diameter. These pictures put just how large that is in perspective.
Some astrobiologists believe life is rare, while others believe it is common in the Universe. How can we find out which view is correct?
"The pulsar sort of consumes the thing that recycled it, just as the spider eats its mate.”
The answer may lie in the particular way sand forms on Titan.
In all of human history, only 5 spacecraft have had the right trajectory to exit the Solar System. Will they ever catch Voyager 1?
Data from the Zhurong rover suggests the Red Planet was wet more recently than we thought.
The sky is blue. The oceans are blue. While science can explain them both, the reasons for each are entirely different.
The idea of black holes has been around for over 200 years. Today, we're seeing them in previously unimaginable ways.
Astronomers in 2017 caught an image of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy far, far away. Doing it in our own galaxy is a huge milestone.
After years of analysis, the Event Horizon Telescope team has finally revealed what the Milky Way's central black hole looks like.
We have long thought that Pluto was completely frozen solid, but the discovery of cryovolcanoes challenges that assumption.
Speculation about the existence of aliens goes all the way back at least to the Greek philosophers. Their arguments will sound familiar.