See the Full Hunter's Moon Shine Bright Tonight By Yasemin Saplakoglu October's full moon, called the Hunter's Moon, will rise tonight (Oct. 13), reaching its peak fullness at 5:08 p.m. ET.
Why Is the Milky Way Galaxy Getting So Gassy? By Chelsea Gohd Using 10 years of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the team of astronomers concluded that there is more gas coming into our galaxy than leaving it.
Why Don't More Women Win Nobels in Science? By Mary K. Feeney Here's a look at why more women don't win more Nobel Prizes in science, an issue that involves women's exclusion from education and careers in science.
Pyramid-Size Asteroid to Hurtle Past Earth (Again) By Mindy Weisberger A fast-moving visitor is approaching our cosmic neighborhood. Dubbed 2019 SX5, this near-Earth object is about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
'Cosmic Mudball Meteorite' Smells Like Brussels Sprouts, Finds New Home at Museum By Mindy Weisberger A new meteorite addition to the Field Museum's collection resembles a malodorous mud brick, but it holds important clues about the origins of life on Earth.
A Second Interstellar Visitor Has Arrived in Our Solar System. This Time, Astronomers Think They Know Where It Came From By Rafi Letzter When 'Oumuamua passed through our solar system in 2017, no one could figure out where the object came from. But astronomers think they've worked out how Comet 2I/Borisov got here.
Why the Science Community Is Upset About Who Won a Nobel — and Who Didn't By Meghan Bartels The Nobel Prize in physics this year has gone to two very different research threads — and danced around some big societal issues, even as they celebrate distinguished work.
Meat Grown in Space for the First Time Ever By Chelsea Gohd This cultivated meat is "slaughter-free."
Nobel Prize in Physics Honors Scientists Who Transformed Our Ideas About the Cosmos By Jeanna Bryner The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists for unraveling the structure and history of the universe and for changing our perspective of Earth’s place in it.
Early Earthlings May Have Watched the Galaxy's Center Explode 3.5 Million Years Ago By Brandon Specktor The mysterious Fermi bubbles at the center of the Milky Way may have been caused by a gargantuan nuclear explosion 3.5 million years ago, new research suggests.
Elon Musk Doesn't Know Where the Aliens Are (So, Stop Asking) By Chelsea Gohd At a recent event in Boca Chica, Texas, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirms that, to his knowledge, we haven't yet discovered aliens.
Can You Count Past Infinity? By Adam Mann How many different types of infinity are there, and can we count past any of them?
Why NASA's Annoyed About Elon Musk's Giant Rocket By Rafi Letzter SpaceX has never flown a person into space in its first spacecraft, the Crew Dragon. But already Musk is showing off his big, shiny Starship — and NASA is bristling.
Twin Baby Stars Caught Feeding from Their Mother, a Twisted 'Pretzel' of Interstellar Dust By Mindy Weisberger Twin baby stars snuggle inside a "pretzel" of glowing gas and dust in an image captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope.
The 1st All-Female Spacewalk Is Back On, After Medium-Size Spacesuits Acquired By Hanneke Weitering NASA is gearing up for a marathon of spacewalks, and one of them could be the first spacewalk to be conducted entirely by women.
'Lucy in the Sky' Review: Natalie Portman Stars in an Astronaut Love Triangle Inspired by Reality By Scott Snowden "Lucy in the Sky" is a fictional story of an astronaut coping with a return to Earth, apparently inspired by a real-life event.
Cosmic Record Holders: The 12 Biggest Objects in the Universe By Adam Mann Things that make you go whoa!
2,000 Atoms Exist in Two Places at Once in Unprecedented Quantum Experiment By Rafi Letzter The new experiment demonstrated a bizarre quantum effect from the double-slit experiment at an unprecedented scale.
First-Ever Image of the 'Cosmic Web' Reveals the Gassy Highway That Connects the Universe By Brandon Specktor A groundbreaking new image provides direct evidence of a 'cosmic web' of gas that links every galaxy in the universe.
