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Say Hello to a Planet So Hot that the Oceans are Lava and it Rains Rocks
Exoplanets are planets orbiting stars outside the solar system, and every month seems to bring in a new batch of weird, wild, and wonderful worlds.
Why We Know Nothing about Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Welcome to the era of precision cosmology…where we’ve managed to very precisely measure everything we don't know about the universe.
This Is How Our Sun Will Die
Every star you see in the sky, including the sun, will someday die. It’s best to get used to that idea now, before things start to get heavy.
How Stars Die: The Fate of a Hypernova
All Stars die. Some stars go out with a bang. Some stars go out with a big bang — a supernova. And some stars are capable of something so spectacular, so rare, we don't even have a name for it yet.
The Death of Black Holes
According to NASA, "A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is dying." But what happens when a black hole dies?
Like Stars? How About 6 in the Same Solar System?
Meet TYC 7037-89-1, a six-star solar system. Astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter explains this stellar surprise discovery.
Why Aren't There Stars in the Moon Landing Photos?
A vocal minority believes that the moon landing was all an elaborate hoax filmed on a sound stage in Hollywood, but it's no hoax. Here's why...
Blue Origin is Headed to Space with a Lucky +1
On behalf of Blue Origin, the opportunity of a lifetime is currently being auctioned off: the last seat on New Shepard, heading to space.
Too Big to be a Neutron Star, Too Small to be a Black Hole. What Am I?
Okay, stars die in all sorts of interesting and cosmically expressive ways (except the red dwarf stars, who just sort of…stop).
The Case of the Missing Black Hole
You would think that objects weighing billions of times the mass of the sun would be easy to find. Alas, it’s rarely that simple.
Want the Ultimate Off-the-Grid Challenge? Try Mars
Mars is the ultimate off-the-grid experience--far grittier, far harder, and far… redder than even the most remote locations on planet Earth. Let’s break down some of the challenges that people will have to face in order to survive and thrive on our neighbor in the solar system.
How Stars Die: The Big Ones
Sometimes when you want to go out, you want to go out with a bang.
A Eulogy for a Galaxy
ID2299, a galaxy 13.8 billion light years away, died far too young.
Mars is Getting International
Things are getting a little crowded at the red planet.