Astronomers Find the Birthplaces of Stars in the Whirlpool Galaxy

Understanding how star-forming works at a galactic scale is challenging in our Milky Way. While we…

The Strangest Coincidence in Physics: The AdS/CFT Correspondence

Attempts to turn string theory into a workable theory of nature have led to the potential…

A New View of Uranus’ North Pole from JWST

One cool thing about Uranus is that its orientation, compared to the rest of the solar…

Can Webb Find the First Stars in the Universe?

The Universe’s very first stars had an important job. They formed from the primordial elements created…

Blue Origin’s New Shepard Completes 24th Flight; New Glenn Hopefully on the Horizon

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket successfully launched and landed today at the company’s Launch Site One…

Astronomers Find Two Planetary Systems Around Sun-Like Stars

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been busy. Clocking in over 5000 exoplanet candidates, the…

A Radio Telescope on the Moon Could Help Us Understand the First 50 Million Years of the Universe

In the coming decade, multiple space agencies and commercial space providers are determined to return astronauts…

Why String Theory Requires Extra Dimensions

String theory found its origins in an attempt to understand the nascent experiments revealing the strong…

Millions of Satellites Could Have a Profound Effect on the Earth’s Ionosphere

Hardly a day goes by where a story hits the headlines about our abuse of the…

The Holographic Secret of Black Holes

As weird as it might sound, black holes appear to be holograms. In the 1980’s physicist…