An Astrobiologist’s Search for Life in Space—and Meaning on Earth
In Life on Other Planets, Aomawa Shields talks about her hunt for habitable exoplanets as a classically trained actress and one of the few Black women ..
In Life on Other Planets, Aomawa Shields talks about her hunt for habitable exoplanets as a classically trained actress and one of the few Black women ..
How do you make space images more accessible? Turn celestial data into sonic compositions that don’t have to be seen to be enjoyed. ..
A globe-spanning group of physicists used pulsars to measure the waves, which they believe emanated from pairs of supermassive black holes. ..
A new theory describes how particle interactions fuel fast magnetic reconnection, the process behind solar flares and other astrophysical jets. ..
A new technique could aid Hubble Space Telescope users, but the problem will get worse for observatories on Earth. ..
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope could help resolve some cosmic discrepancies: How fast the universe is expanding and how evenly matter is distributed. ..
New calculations suggest that the event horizons will eventually “decohere” quantum possibilities—even those that are far away. ..
Phil Plait’s new book, Under Alien Skies, helps space fans imagine what it would be like to visit stars and other worlds. ..
Scientists are using secondary signatures from the cosmic microwave background to map the universe’s hidden matter. ..
In three-dimensional space, the surface of a black hole must be a sphere. But in higher dimensions, an infinite number of configurations are possible. ..