More than 500 free-floating planetary-mass objects have been discovered wandering through the Orion Nebula thanks...

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IntroductionLate in the evening of October 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble sat at the eyepiece of the Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, atop...

Planetary scientists in the US have traced carbon on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa...

IntroductionCynthia Chiang always wanted to work with her hands. Although it may sound counterintuitive, it’s what led her to the fairly abstract field of...

Are we alone? This question is nearly as old as humanity itself. Today, the question in astronomy focuses on finding life beyond our planet....

Google has put together a $20 million to fund studies into how artificial intelligence can be developed and used responsibly and have a positive...

IntroductionLast October, as the James Webb Space Telescope beamed down its first long exposures of the sky near the constellation Eridanus, astronomers began to...

IntroductionYears before she was even sure the James Webb Space Telescope would successfully launch, Christina Eilers started planning a conference for astronomers specializing in...

The universe we live in is a transparent one, where light from stars and galaxies shines bright against a clear, dark backdrop. But this...

From the macroscopic to the microscopic physical properties of the world around us, condensed-matter and materials-science research have a huge impact...

IntroductionIn August 2013, dozens of renowned theoretical physicists gathered in Santa Barbara, California, to discuss a crisis. Their tenuous understanding of black holes was...