Humanity has many powerful tools in its cognitive arsenal. Language, abstract thinking, the theory of mind, and many others define who we are as animals. One of our most powerful tools is pattern
Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the City University of New York Graduate Center (CUNY-ASRC) have demonstrated something English mathematician and physicist Sir Roger Penrose predicted over 50 years ago. According
How do you install new software onto a computer you can never touch, hurtling through deep space at more than twelve kilometres every second? That was the challenge facing the control team behind
Somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy is an old star that has lost one of its comets. By some quirk of orbital mechanics, that frozen nucleus of ice and dust got kicked out
A streak shot of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket flying from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during the Starlink 10-45 mission on July 14, 2026. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now
There are parts of the universe that are extremely hard to see, even for our most advanced telescopes. Gas and dust don’t emit any light, and are only visible by the light that
File photo of a Falcon 9 fueled for launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX. Update July 13, 10:05 p.m. (0205 UTC): SpaceX landed the booster on the droneship. SpaceX
What would it be like to stand at the boundary between night and day on a planet locked forever facing its star? Astronomers have just found the closest thing yet to an answer,
How do you listen for something quieter than almost anything else in nature, a signal built from ghostly particles that pass straight through solid rock without so much as slowing down? A thousand
After decades of analyzing reams of lunar rocks back here on Earth, the canonical view of the Moon was that it was anhydrous; that it had extraordinarily little water. That all began to
