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We're All Made of Stardust. Here's How
13.8 billion years ago, the universe began with a big bang and the atoms it created would find their way into everything
The Sun Will Produce a Beautiful Planetary Nebula When It Dies
A new model of stellar death shows our low-mass star has enough juice to produce a beautiful ring of gas and dust before winking out
If a Cosmic Bubble Destroys the Universe, Scientists Now Know When It'll Happen
Don't panic yet; the end won't be for at least 10 octodecillion years, if it happens at all
Learn to Speak the Language of the Universe With This Mindblowing New Book
<i>Magnitude</i> helps you imagine the outer limits of time, speed and distance—without breaking your brain
Why Pantone's Color of the Year Is the Shade of Science
PANTONE 18-3838 Ultra Violet is a deep saturated purple, but it doesn't hold a candle to true ultraviolet
What the Neutron Star Collision Means for Dark Matter
The latest LIGO observations rekindle a fiery debate over how gravity works: Does the universe include dark matter, or doesn’t it?
When Did East Asian Countries Adopt the Western Calendar and More Questions From Our Readers
You asked, we answered
The Universe Needs You: To Help in the Hunt for Planet 9
How one citizen science endeavor is using the Internet to democratize the search for distant worlds
Guess What? Space is Full of Booze
We’ll toast to that
Could You Crash Into a Black Hole?
Probably not, but it’s fun to think about
What Is Dark Matter and More Questions From Our Readers
You asked, we answered
“Are We Alone in the Universe?” Winston Churchill's Lost Extraterrestrial Essay Says No
The famed British statesman approached the question of alien life with a scientist's mind
The Best Books About Science of 2016
Take a journey to the edge of human knowledge and beyond with one of these mind-boggling page-turners
Was the Speed of Light Even Faster in the Early Universe?
Physicists propose a way to test if light exceeded Einstein's constant just after the Big Bang
Behold: The World's Largest Radio Telescope
The Atacama Large Millimeter Array, located in the Atacama Desert, is the product of a 20-year global effort by Europe, North America, and East Asia
Why Theoretical Physicist Sylvester James Gates Sees No Conflict Between Science and Religion
“I got used to the idea that questions had answers.”
There Are Ten Times as Many Galaxies as Previously Thought
By these latest estimates, two trillion galaxies are scattered throughout the vast universe
Astrophysicist Mario Livio on the Intersection of Art and Science
The scientist considers both a response to the vastness of the universe
Why the Universe Needs More Black and Latino Astronomers
Astronomy has one of the worst diversity rates of any scientific field. This Harvard program is trying to change that
If Telescopes Are Time Machines, the JWST Will Take Us the Furthest Back Yet
The James Webb Space Telescope promises to peer back into the making of the first galaxies
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