A constellation is a group of stars that forms a recognizable pattern in the night sky, one we've given a name, usually after a mythological figure, animal, or object. There are 88 of them officially recognized, and together they map out the entire sky....
Ever look up at the night sky and wonder what's actually the oldest thing on the planet, or even in the whole solar system? Not the oldest rock you can dig up in your backyard, but the actual oldest piece of matter that scientists...
Some constellations ask you to squint and use your imagination. Gemini practically introduces itself. Two bright stars sit side by side, almost the same...
Stephan Schlamminger stood on a conference stage in July 2024, holding a sealed envelope he'd been forbidden from opening for two years past its original deadline. Inside was the one number that would tell him whether a decade of his working life had actually...
There's a strange truth about the Milky Way. You live inside it, right now, along with every person who has ever existed, and yet most people have never actually seen it. Light pollution has stolen it from our night skies so thoroughly that for...