More from Briley Lewis

International Liquid Mirror Telescope
Deep Space

Looking at the stars through a puddle of mercury

By Briley Lewis

The sun
Deep Space

Scientists want to use the sun’s gravity to communicate between stars

By Briley Lewis

Three moons and Jupiter, plus the NASA probe Juno.
Moons

The Juno spacecraft spotted evidence of a salty ocean on Jupiter’s biggest moon

By Briley Lewis

The Milky Way galaxy shines above a dark space telescope in the foreground.
NASA

What astronomers learned from a near-Earth asteroid they never saw coming

By Briley Lewis

Orang heat radiates from a reentering space capsule in NASA artwork.
Environment

Rockets and satellites are shedding metal into the atmosphere

By Briley Lewis

Red-capped Hall effect thrusters being attached to a spacecraft body by two engineers.
NASA

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will blaze an unusual blue trail across the solar system

By Briley Lewis

A purplish spiral galaxy with red and yellow space objects.
Deep Space

JWST takes a jab at the mystery of the universe’s expansion rate

By Briley Lewis

A metal sphere under construction as workers climb over it.
Deep Space

A massive detector in China will try to find a supernova before it happens

By Briley Lewis

A yellow sun partially blocked by a moon in a reddish sky with the US capitol in the foreground.
Science

Citizen scientists can join a ‘Ring of Fire’ eclipse radio experiment

By Briley Lewis

A dark world at the edge of our solar system.
Science

Why a mysterious ninth planet might be lurking beyond Pluto

By Briley Lewis

Soldiers inspect a missile that landed in a Ukraine street without detonating.
Military

Seismic sensors reveal the true intensity of explosions in Ukraine

By Briley Lewis

A close-up astronaut outside the ISS above a blue slice of Earth.
Biology

This is how space might disturb our immune systems

By Briley Lewis

Yellow spacecraft machinery against a white walled background.
Moons

India’s successful moon landing makes lunar history

By Briley Lewis

A purple galaxy cluster against a black background of space, studded with stars.
Deep Space

When two stars orbit each other, gravity gets weird

By Briley Lewis

An illustration of a brown dwarf and a hotter star, in white.
Deep Space

Two tiny stars fit into an orbit smaller than our sun

By Briley Lewis

Stars form a half-circle above a mountain lake.
Environment

7 US parks where you can get stunning nightsky views

By Briley Lewis

A rotor in the middle of a large wind tunnel.
NASA

How epic wind tunnels on Earth make us better at flying through space

By Briley Lewis

A glowing bluish star remnant bursts with X-ray beams in an artist's illustration.
Deep Space

How astronomers traced a puzzling signal to a lunchtime mistake

By Briley Lewis

Uranus captured by Voyager 2 in true color and false color. Uranus got its name from Greek mythology.
Deep Space

Uranus got its name from a very serious authority

By Briley Lewis

Low-frequency gravitation waves emerging from black hole collision in space. Illustration.
Black Holes

Astronomers used dead stars to detect a new form of ripple in space-time

By Briley Lewis

An illustration of Planet Nine, a possible other world in our solar system.
Science

There might be an ice giant planet hiding in our solar system

By Briley Lewis

The TRAPPIST system, which has the most Earth-sized planets known yet.
Deep Space

JWST’s double take of an Earth-sized exoplanet shows it has no sky

By Briley Lewis

The radio telescope at Green Bank.
Deep Space

Astronomers unveil a new way to search for extraterrestrial intelligence

By Briley Lewis

NASA's Psyche probe should blast off to an asteroid later in 2023.
Deep Space

NASA’s journey to a strange metal asteroid should finally begin in October

By Briley Lewis

Mammatus types of clouds over a lighthouse and rocky coast
DIY

A scientific guide to clouds, even the ones that look like udders

By Briley Lewis

An illustration of a hot Jupiter planet, based on Hubble observations.
Deep Space

This hot Jupiter exoplanet unexpectedly hangs out with a super-Earth

By Briley Lewis

Magnetic arches and solar flares emerging from the upper half of the sun's corona
Deep Space

How hundreds of college students are helping solve a centuries-old mystery about the sun

By Briley Lewis

Fomalhaut, a star system 25-light-years away, showing a dust cloud and rocky belts.
Deep Space

Asteroid belt circling star 25 light-years away hints at a hidden planet

By Briley Lewis

Exoplanet LHS 475 b, with a mass 99 percent of Earth, orbits its sun solo, like ours. No co-orbiting planets have been confirmed.
Deep Space

How many planets can form one conga line around a star?

By Briley Lewis

NASA Ingenuity helicopter lost in a Mars crater in a photo taken by Perseverance rover
Engineering

Name a better duo than NASA’s hard-working Mars rover and helicopter

By Briley Lewis

NASA Deep Space Network radiotelescope sending radio waves to spacecraft, stars, and maybe aliens
Deep Space

Alien civilizations could send us messages by 2029

By Briley Lewis

Exoplanet KMT-2021-BLG-1898L b is a gas giant that looks like Jupiter but orbits a separate star. Illustration.
Deep Space

An Einstein-backed method could help us find smaller exoplanets than ever before

By Briley Lewis

A group of people outside their cars along a closed road, wearing eclipse glasses to watch a solar eclipse.
DIY

Watch this week’s rare solar eclipse from anywhere in the world

By Briley Lewis

Magnetic field around sun's corona with NASA's Parker Solar Probe touching the edge. Illustrated.
Deep Space

Why is the sun’s corona 200 times hotter than its surface?

By Briley Lewis

Circled is the infrared afterglow of the BOAT gamma-ray burst and its host galaxy. Taken by NASA space telescopes.
Deep Space

A powerful explosion rocked space so hard, NASA called it the ‘brightest of all time’

By Briley Lewis

Two people, silhouetted, looking up at a clear night sky.
DIY

Catch 5 planets (including Uranus) in an ultra-rare planetary alignment

By Briley Lewis

Oumuamua, which is either a comet or an alien spaceship, giving off hydrogen gas as it passes through the sun's cosmic rays. Illustrated.
Deep Space

‘Oumuamua isn’t an alien probe, but it might be the freakiest comet we’ve ever seen

By Briley Lewis

Water on the moon highlighted in varying shades of blue from NASA SOFIA data
Moons

We finally have a detailed map of water on the moon

By Briley Lewis

Dark energy fills the cosmos. But what is it?
Physics

Dark energy fills the cosmos. But what is it?

By Briley Lewis

A variety of illustrated exoplanets.
Deep Space

Sorry, Star Trek fans, the real planet Vulcan doesn’t exist

By Briley Lewis

An artist's conception of a supermassive black hole.
Black Holes

Black hole collisions could possibly send waves cresting through space-time

By Briley Lewis

An optical image from the Keck-I Telescope superimposed on a Chandra X-ray image of Uranus.
NASA

Uranus’s quirks and hidden features have astronomers jazzed about a direct mission

By Briley Lewis

Silhouette of bird in front of full moon
Science

Volunteer astronomers bring wonders of the universe into prisons

By Briley Lewis

An open-celled cloud formation west of Chile.
Environment

IBM’s AI has a new job: sorting through NASA’s giant stream of Earth and weather images

By Briley Lewis

The ISS as imaged by astronauts in the Soyuz capsule.
International Space Station

The ISS is the best place for an astronaut to get stuck in space

By Briley Lewis

Astronomers want to wield a tiny laser to look for life on neighboring worlds
Science

Astronomers want to wield a tiny laser to look for life on neighboring worlds

By Briley Lewis

Milky Way galaxy stars in infrared by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope
Deep Space

Our universe mastered the art of making galaxies while it was still young

By Briley Lewis

Two colliding neutron stars.
Black Holes

Wiggly space waves show neutron stars on the edge of becoming black holes

By Briley Lewis

James Webb Space Telescope life-size NASA model in front of Austin skyline
Deep Space

JWST has changed the speed of discovery, for better or for worse

By Briley Lewis

The Jovian moon Io, showing a volcanic eruption.
Moons

A mysterious magma ocean could fuel our solar system’s most volcanic world

By Briley Lewis

NASA Orion spacecraft with unfolded solar panels on wings as it circles the moon. The Earth is far off in the background.
Energy

Artemis I’s solar panels harvested a lot more energy than expected

By Briley Lewis

An artist's illustration of the dust and gas surrounding a newborn star.
Deep Space

Chile’s Very Large Telescope reveals the productive antics of sibling stars

By Briley Lewis

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, in an artist's illustration.
Deep Space

Ridiculously hot gas giant exoplanet is about to be swallowed by its dying sun

By Briley Lewis

Want to learn about something in space? Crash into it.
Deep Space

Want to learn about something in space? Crash into it.

By Briley Lewis

An artist's rendition of the New Horizons spacecraft.
NASA

NASA’s New Horizons mission begins again at the edge of the solar system

By Briley Lewis

Mars surface impact crater from meteor strike with water ice captured by NASA instruments
Mars

Two NASA missions combined forces to analyze a new kind of marsquake

By Briley Lewis