How an interstellar comet sheds light on universe's 'cosmic noon'

Last year, an interstellar traveler entered our solar system. Some speculated that it was an alien spacecraft, but it turned ...
Space.com

'Once-in-a-millennium' asteroid flyby will be visible to much of the world in 2029

"This is the first time that we've been able to predict in human history an asteroid visibly passing by the Earth." ...

I’ve Been Teaching For 15 Years. I’ve Never Been Afraid In Class Until Now.

I scan the space, trying to see faces and checking for my blind spots. Concealed carry is legal in Wisconsin, but getting ...
Times Higher Education

The Democracy Lab: how 20 minutes of debate can revive the lecture

By introducing short debate about a current issue or trend tied to that day’s lecture, Theo Koutmeridis discovered a simple ...
Getty

Précis of the Lectures on Architecture with Graphic Portion of the Lectures on Architecture

We're sorry but Getty Publications and Reports doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue. We're sorry but Getty Publications and ...
Opinion

'You don't need college to learn': Elon Musk says degrees don't prove ability; Sanjeev Sanyal agrees

If you're trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don't consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability,' says Musk ...
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NASA’s Roman telescope reached Florida eight months early to map billions of galaxies

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 21, 2026, nearly eight months ...

Ultrafast scanning tunneling microscopy reaches the quantum mechanical space-time limit for the first time

Werner Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle describes one of the most intriguing features of quantum physics: certain pairs of physical quantities describing a particle, such as position and ...
Space.com

Space science has come a long way since July 4, 1776. Here's a look back at the saga

Celebrating America's 250th birthday, Space.com looks back at what our understanding of space was like in 1776 and what major ...

Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR

After some onboarding that included setting such preferences as closed captioning and signing a waiver, I had enough time to ...

A Quantum Experiment Could Split Time in Two

Modern physics is weird. In quantum mechanics we have the Schrodinger’s cat thought experiment, a cat in a quantum ...