Browsing: Astronomy

Why we’ll first find aliens on eyeball planets.

It’s true that we haven’t seen alien life, but neither have we seen much of the universe.

See how the night sky would appear from a different part of the galaxy.

The Antennae Galaxies are in a state of “starburst,” when the gas from the two colliding galaxies crashes together to produce huge numbers of new stars.ESA/Hubble & NASA According to the basic approximation, stars are formed by a stately, gradual process that belies the power it eventually unleashes. Within a great gas cloud, gravity slowly […]

A new model—“The Big Splat”—explains the strange asymmetry of the moon.

Scientists are blocking out the light of distant suns to look for life.

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

How three groups are competing to make the first extremely large telescope.

Peculiar shapes were the key to realizing that galaxies merge.