If the Universe has adolescent galaxies, they're the ones that formed about 2 to 3 billion years after the Big…
Nature doesn't conform to our ideas of neatly-contained categories. Many things in nature blur the lines we try to draw…
Most planets and moons in the Solar System are clearly dead and totally unsuitable for life. Earth is the only…
Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) are impossible to ignore. They can be billions of times more massive than the Sun, and…
Astronomers have spotted barium in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet. With its 56 protons, you have to run your…
Finding oxygen in an exoplanet's atmosphere is a clue that life may be at work. On Earth, photosynthetic organisms absorb…
When the James Webb Space Telescope aims at exoplanet atmospheres, it'll use spectroscopy to identify chemical elements. One of the…
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago via accretion. Earth's building blocks were chunks of rock of varying sizes. From…
Will we ever understand life's origins? Will we ever be able to put our finger on the exact moment and…
We know a ton about the inside of Earth. We know it has both an inner core and an outer…