Astronomy

  1. Astronomy

    Interactive map reveals hidden details of the Milky Way

    Gleamoscope, an interactive map, lets you explore the Milky Way galaxy and the nearby universe in many different electromagnetic frequencies.

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  2. Astronomy

    Young planets carve rings and spirals in the gas around their suns

    New telescope images show rings and spiral arms in disks encircling young stars, suggesting the presence of actively growing planets.

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  3. Astronomy

    Readers unimpressed by Earth’s newest neighbor

    Exoplanet fatigue, runaway fish and more in reader feedback.

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  4. Astronomy

    Uranus moon count: 27 and rising

    Two more moons might be lurking around Uranus, causing material in the planet’s rings to clump up, Voyager 2 data suggest.

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  5. Astronomy

    Cosmic census of galaxies updated to 2 trillion

    A new census of the cosmos suggests that there might be 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe, about 10 times as many as previous estimates.

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  6. Science & Society

    Sometimes failure is the springboard to success

    Editor in chief Eva Emerson discusses scientific discoveries that resulted from failures large and small.

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  7. Physics

    A metallic odyssey, what’s causing sunspots and more reader feedback

    Metallic hydrogen, sunspot formation, salty desalination leftovers and more in reader feedback.

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  8. Tech

    XPRIZE launched new kind of space race, book recounts

    'How to Make a Spaceship' chronicles the XPRIZE challenge that helped ignite the private space industry.

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  9. Astronomy

    Solar system sits within major spiral arm of Milky Way

    The solar system appears to live in one of the major spiral arms of the Milky Way, not in an offshoot as previously thought.

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  10. Astronomy

    Solar system sits within a major spiral arm of the Milky Way

    The solar system appears to live in one of the major spiral arms of the Milky Way, not in an offshoot as previously thought.

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  11. Astronomy

    Old-school contraptions still work for weighing astronauts

    To weigh themselves, astronauts still use technology invented about 50 years ago.

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  12. Astronomy

    Anna Frebel digs a young universe

    Astronomer Anna Frebel has discovered record-breaking stars, including the most pristine in the galaxy.

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