What are the Chances of Life Appearing On…Earth?

Just how lucky are we on Earth? What were the chances that life would arise, let alone lead to intelligence?

The Future of Space Exploration

Over the past couple decades, the space-minded folks around the world have debated the relative merits of the two possible destinations for space exploration. Moon or Mars?

Everything You Need to Know About NASA & SpaceX's Historic Launch Day

Get the play-by-play on everything that happened from launch preparations and tests to liftoff and dock with the ISS. (Updated 5/31/20)

4 Reasons Why Earth is the Best Planet to Call Home

Since 1970, folks from around the world have gathered together to celebrate Earth Day, an appreciation for all the good stuff we’ve got here on the Earth – and a reminder to try not to mess it up. But what’s so special about the Earth, anyway?

Celebrating Hubble's 30 Year Legacy

Three cheers for the Hubble! First launched in 1990 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, the storied space telescope is celebrating is thirtieth year in lonely orbit around the Earth.

Space Out

Astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter helps make sense of space news and phenomenons in the universe.

How to Save Humanity from Extinction

Asteroid Ryugu Has Dust Grains Older Than the Sun. How?

When We’ll Know if NASA’s Asteroid Impact Test was a Success

What Comes After the Moon and Mars?

What Screaming Black Holes are Telling Us

Want to Name a Planet? Now’s Your Chance

What We Learn from the Lunar Surface

Six Planets are Retrograde, What Does that Mean for You?

Got You! Astronomers Find an Especially Sneaky Black Hole

Why Astronomers Care About Super-Old Galaxies?

Here Comes Artemis I (Rescheduled, again)

This Year, James Webb will Take a Close Look at a Lava World

How Astronomers Use a Trick of Gravity to See the Most Distant Objects in the Universe

What We’ve Already Learned From James Webb? (Hint: it’s a lot)

How Exoplanets Became the Next Big Thing in Astronomy

We’re Watching a Giant Star Die Before Our Very Eyes

10 Years of the Higgs Boson

The Latest Thing to Blow Your Mind: A “Black Widow” Binary

There Isn’t a Door on Mars, but there are Some Cool Rocks

How Do We Know How Old the Sun Is?

Astronomers May Have Found a Rare “Free-Floating” Black Hole

NASA Has a New Supersonic Jet and It’s Super-Quiet

Behold, the Sun as You’ve Never Seen It Before

Take a Trip Through the Oort Cloud, It’s Fun

You Love Supernova, So How About Micronova?

What is the Multiverse?

We Might Smell Life Before We See It

Stories

How to Save Humanity from Extinction

Asteroid Ryugu Has Dust Grains Older Than the Sun. How?

Scientists in China Discover Rare Moon Crystal that Could Power Earth

When We’ll Know if NASA’s Asteroid Impact Test was a Success

What Comes After the Moon and Mars?

What Screaming Black Holes are Telling Us

The First Native American Woman Travels into Space with NASA's Crew-5 Mission

Want to Name a Planet? Now’s Your Chance

What We Learn from the Lunar Surface

Six Planets are Retrograde, What Does that Mean for You?

Watch NASA's Asteroid-Crashing DART Mission Make Impact

Jupiter Makes Its Closest Approach to Earth in Nearly 60 Years

Got You! Astronomers Find an Especially Sneaky Black Hole

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Big Brain Bestfriends, Mars Exploration Fleet, Brain Unpain

Why Astronomers Care About Super-Old Galaxies?

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Skin Print, Testing Birth Control, Race To Bring Mars Home

6 Months in Space Permanently Ages Bones by 10 Years

Here Comes Artemis I (Rescheduled, again)

This Year, James Webb will Take a Close Look at a Lava World

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Space Slingshot, Ancient Modern Pants, Lifesaving Silence

Groundbreaking New Images of Jupiter Exceed NASA's Expectations

How Astronomers Use a Trick of Gravity to See the Most Distant Objects in the Universe

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Rice TV Screen, Satellite Warfare, Unraveled DNA

All Rainwater is Unsafe to Drink According to Study

What We’ve Already Learned From James Webb? (Hint: it’s a lot)

A Guide to this August’s Best Astronomy Attractions

In this Mars-Like Landscape, You Can See Both Hemispheres At Once