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Hubble space telescope deep field view of ancient galaxies that helps answer the question: How old is the universe?
Deep Space

How old is the universe? Our answer keeps getting more precise.

By Charlie Wood

Pluto is not a planet but a dwarf planet. Outline of its corona on black taken by the NASA New Horizons probe.
Pluto

Pluto is not a planet because of one small technicality

By Charlie Wood

Red toy truck carries a small recycled Christmas tree
DIY

What’s the most eco-friendly way to dispose of your Christmas tree?

By Charlie Wood

The most high-flying aerospace innovations of 2021
Announcements

The most high-flying aerospace innovations of 2021

By Charlie Wood, Rob Verger

illustration of a radio signal beaming towards earth
Science

Astronomers discover disappearing radio source in the Milky Way’s center

By Charlie Wood

A key part of the big bang remains troublingly elusive
Physics

A key part of the big bang remains troublingly elusive

By Charlie Wood

A rocky asteroid takes up the left half of the frame, and a satellite with two large solar panels sits to the right.
Science

Meet Lucy: NASA’s new asteroid-hopping spacecraft

By Charlie Wood

Four adults stand side by side at night.
Private Space Flight

SpaceX’s Inspiration4 shows spaceflight is changing fast—and science must keep up

By Charlie Wood

An illustration of a quasar in space, blinding light that shoots out top and bottom, with matter swirling around perpendicularly.
Black Holes

Blindingly bright black holes could help cosmologists see deeper into the universe’s past

By Charlie Wood

A meteor streaks across a night sky.
Private Space Flight

This meteor-tracking system could prevent a falling-rocket debris disaster

By Charlie Wood

An illustration of a brown dwarf, a celestial body that is not quite planet, not quite star.
Science

These 5 mysterious space objects straddle the line between planets and stars

By Charlie Wood

An illustration of a dramatic sunrise on a "Hycean" planet, with a very reddish-orange sun and skyline against a steamy, dark blue ocean.
Deep Space

‘Hycean’ exoplanets could be home to the alien life we’ve been searching for

By Charlie Wood

Aerial view of Paranal with VISTA in the foreground and the Very Large Telescope in the background.
Science

A tiny town on the Tibetan Plateau could be the new global hub for space telescopes

By Charlie Wood

Flickering light could help astronomers weigh supermassive black holes
Black Holes

Flickering light could help astronomers weigh supermassive black holes

By Charlie Wood

A full moon against an amber sky with foliage brush in the foreground.
Moons

Enjoy breathing oxygen? Thank the moon.

By Charlie Wood

A supermassive black hole inflates massive lobes, visible here in X-rays, above and below the Centaurus A galaxy.
Black Holes

Black hole jets got some stellar glam shots thanks to this giant telescope

By Charlie Wood

Blue Origin brought the first official tourists to space
Private Space Flight

Blue Origin brought the first official tourists to space

By Charlie Wood

A woman's face partially in shadow, aboard a suborbital, looks out a window back at Earth.
Private Space Flight

Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin will bring science along on their joyrides

By Charlie Wood

An image of the Crab Nebula
Particle Physics

The Crab Nebula’s electron launcher is so powerful, it almost shouldn’t exist

By Charlie Wood

Unidentified aerial phenomena filmed from a US Navy jet
Science

The sky is full of potential UFOs—here’s why

By Charlie Wood