The Earth wouldn’t exist yet, but stars would be bursting into existence. They would be forming 20-30 times faster than they are today. And there would be vast amounts of radiation as active ...

Earth is expected to remain alive for an almost unimaginable length of time, but new calculations suggest that even massive ...

DC’s Earth One graphic novel line ended before reaching its full potential, but DC’s new alternate continuity of the Absolute Universe is more than compensating for it. Few intellectual properties are ...

In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In addition to the information about the universe gleaned from the sample itself, ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

Mon., June 23, 2025 A composite image of the supernova 1E0102.2-7219 contains X-rays from Chandra (blue and purple), visible light data from VLT’s MUSE instrument (bright red), and additional data ...

I live near a few volcanoes. One of them – Mount St. Helens – is bubbling with molten material that will probably gush out as lava someday. I asked my friend Johannes Hämmerli about lava. He’s an ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

On a recent camping trip to Kings Canyon National Park I had the opportunity to escape the light-polluted vistas of the city and look through a pair of binoculars at the stars under a dark Sierra ...