Adam Mann is a journalist specializing in astronomy and physics stories. His work has appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Nature, Science, and many other places. He lives in Oakland, California, where he enjoys riding his bike. Follow him on Twitter @adamspacemann or visit his website at https://www.adamspacemann.com/.
Latest articles by Adam Mann

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Reference Starlink satellites have been developed by SpaceX to provide internet to remote locations. Here we explore the controversial megaconstellation in more detail.
By Adam Mann, Vicky Stein Last updated
Reference Psyche is a NASA mission that will explore a 140-mile-wide (225 kilometers) metallic asteroid called 16 Psyche. To provide an insight into planetary formation.

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Reference Here's how time is coordinated around the world.

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Reference The Pleiades is a bright star cluster and a popular skywatching target. We take a look at where it is located and the mythology behind the famous asterism.

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Reference The Space Race was a bitter competition that took place in the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, between the USA and the Soviet Union.

By Adam Mann, Daisy Dobrijevic Last updated
Reference NASA’s Lucy mission is the first to visit the Trojan asteroids. Lucy will help answer questions about the formation of the solar system.

By Ailsa Harvey, Adam Mann Last updated
Reference Artemis is NASA's plan to send humans back to the moon.

By Adam Mann, Elizabeth Howell Published
Reference Pluto, officially a dwarf planet, has surprising complexity on its surface. While certainly a world, not everyone agrees it is a planet.

By Adam Mann Published
An astronomer proposes that the sun-like star 2MASS 19281982-2640123 is the origin of the Wow! Signal

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NASA's upcoming Space Launch System is amazing in so many ways.

By Adam Mann Published
A rundown of awesome results about black holes from 2021.

By Adam Mann Published
A trippy new estimate calculates the total number of bits in the visible universe

By Adam Mann Published
Researchers have watched a mysterious fast radio burst shoot out energy far more times than they thought was possible.

By Adam Mann Published
All about the private company Boeing, with an emphasis on its commercial spaceflight operations.

By Adam Mann Published
An overview of the Earth-observing fleet of Sentinel satellites that are part of the Copernicus program.

By Adam Mann Published
A major astrochemical project has produced comprehensive maps of molecules in protoplanetary disks and found lots of organic material.

By Adam Mann Published
Physicists turned on a new type of gravitational-wave sensor and saw two intriguing results, but they aren't yet ready to claim a discovery.

By Adam Mann Published
By entangling the motion and quantum properties of a beryllium crystal, scientists have achieved unprecedented precision for measuring electromagnetic waves.

By Adam Mann Published
Researchers show how intelligent aliens might draw nearly-limitless power from a black hole using a Dyson sphere.

By Adam Mann Published
A telescope in China has mapped out what may be a totally new arm of our home galaxy.

By Adam Mann Published
An attempt to figure out how much emission Jeff Bezos' jaunt into space will produce and whether we should be concerned about it

By Adam Mann Published
Two spaceflight experts consulted by Live Science said that Jeff Bezos had decent odds of surviving his upcoming ride into space

By Adam Mann Published
Astronomer Wendy Freedman suggests that the latest observations of red giant stars could be closing the gap on the Hubble tension.
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