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Cosmology
Venus comes nearer to Earth than any other planet, yet averaged over time the closest planet to Earth is Mercury
The planet we think is closest to Earth isn't—and neither is any other planet what it seems when you average the numbers correctly.
Exo Worlds
After nearly 70 years of searching, humanity has found no confirmed evidence of extraterrestrial life—only potential biosignatures in a…
Mars, K2-18 b and decades of UAP reports offer intriguing fragments, but each remains separated from confirmed extraterrestrial life by a different evidentiary gap.
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Space
Industry news, exploration, and the engineering of getting humans and machines beyond Earth.
At the space shuttle’s orbital speed of roughly 28,000 kilometres per hour, the journey to Alpha Centauri would take about 165,000 years
Nancy Grace Roman (1925–2018) was NASA’s first chief astronomer, its first female executive, the “Mother of Hubble,” and the woman who…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launched today, nine months ahead of its official deadline after surviving three cancellation proposals and a…
People who have followed NASA’s Roman Space Telescope from its late-1990s conceptual roots aren’t being dramatic when they call it overdue
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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
In 2025, astronomers reported evidence for a planet orbiting two brown dwarfs at nearly 90 degrees—the first candidate world circling over…
In 1905 a Bohemian prince brought five muskrats back from a hunting trip to America and released them on his castle ponds near Prague
Venus comes nearer to Earth than any other planet, yet averaged over time the closest planet to Earth is Mercury
After nearly 70 years of searching, humanity has found no confirmed evidence of extraterrestrial life—only potential biosignatures in a…
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Science
Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
In 1905 a Bohemian prince brought five muskrats back from a hunting trip to America and released them on his castle ponds near Prague
Par Pond, a 2,300-acre South Carolina reservoir dug to cool two plutonium production reactors, now holds several hundred alligators, and…
For most of human history, anyone standing beneath a clear, moonless sky could see the Milky Way
For a few months each spring, underwater microphones off New York fill with the calls of endangered sei whales
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