A Solar Forecast With Good News for Civilization as We Know It
The sun is beginning to perk up again. An international panel of scientists announced on Tuesday that the sun had emerged from the quietest part...
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The Artist Whose Medium Is Science
RIGHT NOW, SEVERAL hundred miles overhead, a golden urn with the face of a forgotten man is circling Earth, a passenger on a black satellite....
On Venus, Cloudy With a Chance of Microbial Life
It’s been a while — like, forever — since anyone claimed to have discovered life on Venus. And truth be told, the scientists who announced...
The Search for Life on Venus Could Start With Rocket Lab
Elon Musk wants to settle humans on Mars with his rocket company SpaceX. Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, wants a trillion people living in space. But...
Missions to Venus: Highlights From History, and When We May Go Back
Carl Sagan once said that Venus is the planet in our solar system most like hell. So when are we going back? Astronomers on Monday...
Life on Venus? Astronomers See Phosphine Signal in Its Clouds
High in the toxic atmosphere of the planet Venus, astronomers on Earth have discovered signs of what might be life. If the discovery is confirmed...
How Old Is This Ancient Vision of the Stars?
The Nebra sky disk has been hailed as the oldest known representation of the cosmos. Uncovered by looters in 1999 and then recovered in a...
Is There a Black Hole in Our Backyard?
What is an astrophysicist to do during a pandemic, except maybe daydream about having a private black hole? Although it is probably wishful thinking, some...
The Solar System Winked
When Ilana Ozernoy was a young girl growing up in the Soviet Union, her father, Leonid Ozernoy, a prominent astrophysicist in Moscow, bought her a...
A Rip in the Fabric of Interstellar Dreams
The road to Arecibo Observatory in northwestern Puerto Rico winds upward through farms and rainforest. Chickens run across the road. Then, suddenly, you reach the...