Roughly a century ago, scientists began to realize that some of the radiation we detect in Earth’s atmosphere is not...
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In less than three years, astronauts will return to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo Era. As...
A little over a week ago (18 February 2021), NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero crater on the surface of Mars. In...
Since time immemorial, philosophers and scholars have contemplated the beginning of time and even tried to determine when all things...
A little over a decade from now, NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars for the first time. This mission...
For almost a century, astronomers have understood that the Universe is in a state of expansion. Since the 1990s, they...
It is no exaggeration to say that the study of extrasolar planets has exploded in recent decades. To date, 4,375 exoplanets have...
In October 19th, 2017, the first interstellar object ever detected flew past Earth on its way out of the Solar System....
Beyond Earth, the general scientific consensus is that the best place to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life is Mars. However,...
In 1950, Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi sat down to lunch with some of his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he...
In July of 2015, NASA’s New Horizons probe made history when it became the first mission ever to conduct a close flyby of...
For astronomers, astrophysicists, and cosmologists, the ability to spot the first stars that formed in our Universe has always been...