The hunt for a habitable world like ours heats up—and bears results
Space
Ride the Science Train—aka the New York Subway
New York City’s science train offers a chance encounter with the universe
Button Up: Here’s the Coldest Place in the Universe
New observations award the chilliness prize to a nebula 5,000 light years away
Want to See the Real Great Lakes? Leave Earth
The Cassini spacecraft find yet another marvel on Saturn’s moon Titan
‘No Chinese Allowed.’ NASA’s Short-Lived Rule
A poorly applied national security law nearly scuttles an international scientific conference
A Cosmic Discovery That Would Surprise Even Einstein
A strange phenomenon of gravity, light and spacetime may force us to rethink our understanding of our galaxy
Alive and Well In a Block of Ice
New studies of hibernating bacteria show how DNA can repair and maintain itself over hundreds of thousands of years. That has big meaning for life in space.
Astronaut Scott Carpenter Dies: An Appreciation of a Life
One of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, Carpenter flew a strange and harrowing mission
Astronaut Scott Carpenter Is Dead at 88
The second American to orbit Earth was also one of two remaining astronauts from NASA’s Mercury program
Asteroid Pours Water on Dead Sun. Yes, That’s Happening
A study of a burnt-out star 170 light years away provides more evidence of the ubiquity of water in the universe