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"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it."
We only detected our very first gravitational wave in 2015. Over the next two decades, we'll have thousands more.
We knew we'd find galaxies unlike any seen before in its first deep-field image. But the other images hold secrets even more profound.
The surface of asteroid Bennu is more like a plastic ball pit than the Moon.
Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here's why that's an extraordinary feat.
A second Enlightenment would have a far bigger task: Saving civilization itself.
"The surface is no longer a record of every impact the moon has ever had, because at some point, impacts were erasing previous impacts."
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Rituals come as much from religion as they do from the way Earth spins around the Sun.
Even though the leftover glow from the Big Bang creates a bath of radiation at only 2.725 K, some places in the Universe get even colder.
The costs of such an endeavor would be extremely high, while the potential payoffs would be uncertain.
Take a peek at the pre-release images used to calibrate and commission JWST's coldest instrument, now ready for full science operations.
The length of a day oscillates slightly every six years. This was a surprising discovery made last decade. We might now know why.
The psychology of alien contact largely revolves around the concept of "otherness." We need to learn to be comfortable around strange things.
Like humans, stars die. The James Webb Space Telescope's early images already give us a lot of information about how this happens.
Even with only 12.5 hours of exposure time, James Webb's first deep-field image taught us lessons we've never realized before.
Astronomy's roots rest in the very origins of humanity. We have always looked to the skies for answers. We are starting to get them.
Now that it's fully commissioned, the James Webb Space Telescope begins its exploration of the Universe. Here are its first science images!
With its very first deep-field view of the Universe now released, the James Webb Space Telescope has shown us our cosmos as never before.
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
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LIGO can detect the inspirals and mergers of the lowest-mass black holes, but not the biggest ones. Here's how pulsars can help.
1859's Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
Your eyes are playing tricks on you.
Since at least 600 BC, people have been mesmerized by the concept of the infinite.
The discovery calls into question the few things scientists know about these powerful astronomical phenomena.
There are billions of potentially inhabited planets in the Milky Way alone. Here's how NASA will at last discover and measure them.
Do you think you know the Solar System? Here's a fact about each planet that might surprise you when you see it!
With two different black hole event horizons now directly imaged, we can see that they are, in fact, rings, not disks. But why?
When stars form, they emit energetic radiation that boils gas away. But it can't stop gravitational collapse from making even newer stars.