What's It Like On Our Neighbor, Proxima b?
StartFragment The newfound planet Proxima b is the closest planet outside our solar system ever discovered, and scientists think it might...
Why Did It Take So Long to Find Proxima b?
StartFragment Over the past two decades, astronomers have discovered more than 3,200 exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system....
Found! Potentially Earth-Like Planet at Proxima Centauri Is Closest Ever
The star closest to the sun hosts a planet that may be very much like Earth, a new study reports. Astronomers have discovered a roughly...
Alien Megastructure? 'Tabby's Star' Continues to Baffle Scientists
StartFragment Nearly a year after first making headlines around the world, "Tabby's star" is still guarding its secrets. In September...
Mystery Solved: BlackHole
StartFragment A 30-year-old mystery about black holes has just been solved. The story starts in the 1980s, when astronomers found that...
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
StartFragment In 1905, Albert Einstein determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and that the...
5 Reasons We May Live In Multiverse
StartFragment The universe we live in may not be the only one out there. In fact, our universe could be just one of an infinite number of...
Is Our Universe A Fake?
StartFragment I began bemused. The notion that humanity might be living in an artificial reality — a simulated universe — seemed...
Galactic Lenses Confirm Universe’s Age, Size
StartFragment The size and age of the universe, as well as how fast it is expanding, has been confirmed with a new, precise method that...
Mysterious Dark Energy May Not Exist
StartFragment The universe may not be expanding at an accelerating rate after all, meaning that mysterious "dark energy" might not...
