Why Is Our Solar System Flat?
It started as a big old ball of dust, so how did it end up like a giant pancake? Our resident physicist tells the true story using fake forces. ..
It started as a big old ball of dust, so how did it end up like a giant pancake? Our resident physicist tells the true story using fake forces. ..
Two experiments you can do yourself to finally, definitively put this question to rest. ..
From data access to scientific merit, Dr. Norman is working to make astronomy—and all STEM fields—more inclusive. ..
Pioneering a new field in cosmology, Dr. Pasterski explores diverse perspectives in physics and astronomy—and whether the universe might actually be a hologram. ..
In their jiggles and shakes, red giant stars encode a record of the magnetic fields near their cores. ..
As project scientist on NASA’s Exoplanet Archive, Dr. Christiansen is a huge advocate for citizen science—and making sure anyone can be a planet hunter. ..
The galaxy's stars keep a record of its history. By reading those stories, astronomers are learning more about how the Milky Way came to be—and about ..
Images from the European Space Agency’s newest telescope show the power of instruments that will create 3D surveys of a third of the sky, covering 10 billion ..
Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance ..
Astronomers show how a 50-meter space rock orbiting near Earth isn’t a typical asteroid: It probably blasted off the moon millions of years ago. ..