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Now that New Horizons has completed its flyby of Pluto, the spacecraft is on a long journey to become the fifth manmade object to leave the solar system. It does so carrying some curious human artifacts: a Florida state quarter, an American flag, and one ounce of the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto […]

Our own oasis of life in the cosmos is blue, but will others be?

Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) uses the VLA (Very Large Array) to look for alien signals. But that’s not the only way. Warner Brothers When people think about SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, they imagine messages sent via radio—Jodie Foster tuning antennas, hoping to pick up signals from the “billions and billions” of star systems […]

Why the Great Red Spot refuses to die.

Why the Great Red Spot refuses to die.

For these scientists, success and fame did not come in equal measure.

10 great minds that should have been in your science textbooks.

The physicist on writing, the writer on physics.

Revisiting James Lovelock’s theory as it approaches 50.

One astronomer has taken to U.S. National Parks to rekindle an old romance.