HELSINKI — China launched its Einstein Probe early Tuesday to detect X-ray emissions from violent, fleeting cosmic phenomena using novel lobster eye-inspired optics. A Long...

IntroductionEarth’s fate rests on a coin flip. In 5 billion years, our sun will balloon into a red giant star. Whether Earth survives is an...

Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies—and increasingly by commercial companies—are set to visit the moon by...

A rare system of six exoplanets, all smaller than Neptune but larger than Earth, has been found with orbits that are all resonant with...

Astronomers get to ask some of the most fundamental questions there are, ranging from whether we’re alone in the cosmos to what the nature...

By: Numa Dhamani & Maggie Engler   It's safe to say that AI is having a moment. Ever since OpenAI's conversational agent ChatGPT went unexpectedly viral...

My college laptop was slow. It didn’t help that the internet was too. Neither fact distracted me from two crucial tasks: downloading music and...

Are we alone? This question is nearly as old as humanity itself. Today, the question in astronomy focuses on finding life beyond our planet....

IntroductionFor decades, astronomers have been perplexed by planetary magnetic fields. In our own solar system, there is no rule that explains which worlds generate...

IntroductionThe heart’s electrical system keeps all its muscle cells beating in sync. A hard whack to the chest at the wrong moment, however, can...

Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets outside of the solar system to date. The grand question is whether any of these planets are...

The search for planets outside our solar system—exoplanets—is one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy. Over the past few decades, more than...