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....
In 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi was having lunch with colleagues at Los Alamos, chatting about recent UFO reports, when he reportedly blurted out a question that's haunted scientists ever since: "But where is everybody?" With billions of stars and likely billions of habitable planets...
Ask almost anyone to name a shape in the night sky and there's a good chance they'll say the Big Dipper. It's the one pattern nearly everybody knows, the seven bright stars shaped like a saucepan or a ladle that hang over the northern...
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known," Carl Sagan once said. Looking at our solar system, Saturn's rings capture our imagination like nothing else. They have puzzled us for centuries, making us wonder about our cosmic home.
People often wonder: why does saturn have...