Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out ...

Redwood City Public Library Book Club This month, the club reads Benjamin Alire Saenz’s “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” in celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride Month.

Through the lens of the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, scientists are zeroing in on the Hubble Constant, a vital ...

In a distant part of the universe, where astronomy uncovers the mysteries of ... quasar paving way for the study of the cosmic dawn This enormous water reservoir was discovered thanks to the ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on the ancient geocentric cosmos and Christian eschatology—and its toads are Dante’s ...

In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive ...

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...

The faraway world, a gas giant called WASP-127b that was discovered in 2016, orbits a star 520 light-years from Earth. It zips around its host star in just four days, following a slightly skewed orbit ...

The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for ...

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Elon Musk’s sense of humor is out of this world. Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center ...