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We're entering a new era of astrophysics. The James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists test existing ideas and models of how the universe was created—on a whole new level. This telescope is sending back images of galaxies forming under a billion years after the Big Bang—way earlier than astronomers had previously expected. Not only that, scientists had anticipated that later—but still very early—galaxies would be small, barely formed blobs; instead, the galaxies in these ima...

(1) YOU’RE FROM THE SIXTIES! The Daily Beast’s article “Gay Talese on Resisting His Frank Sinatra Assignment, and What Really Matters in a Marriage” goes into the Sinatra-Ellison confrontation at length. (Which, if you’ve never read the piece, is here,) "... Gay Talese, at 91 years old, perhaps the world’s oldest living bestselling author with 17

Science fiction movies and other futuristic fantasies have filled our imaginations with amazing ideas of what things could be in the future. These stories

"If only 1 in a million planets was a host to life, there would still be around half a million life-bearing planets in this galaxy alone."

Scientists have calculated the average distance between stars, but theres much more to star distribution than meets the eye.

New research from a Florida Tech astrobiologist examines this broad class of objects that are not gravitationally bound to any stars.

Scientists will develop “worlds in a box” to investigate the phenomenon of atmospheric escape—how some planets, like Earth, hold onto their atmospheres while others, like Mars, don’t. 

This week’s real news is the discovery of life on another planet. As Cambridge University’s Nikku Madhusudhan said in the first sentence of his report:...

There are many people who have the opinion about interstellar travel being impossible. They are looking at our current immature economy and immature space

You can walk the length of our vast solar system at a new, permanent exhibit stretching more than half a mile across the University of Arizona campus.