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Kepler's Third Law uncovered the mysteries of the motions in our solar system

Kepler’s Third Law: The movement of solar system planets

By Robert Lea published

Reference Kepler's Third Law not only calculated the planetary movements in the solar system, but also helped to determine the average distance of the planet from its stars.

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The James Webb Space Telescope will rest in space at Lagrange Point 2, a spot directly behind Earth from the sun's perspective. There, the instrument will make powerful observations of far-off celestial bodies; the telescope's infrared view will be able to penetrate interstellar dust.

What will the James Webb Space Telescope reveal to us about dark matter?

By Chelsea Gohd published

The James Webb Space Telescope could help to solve the pressing mysteries of dark matter.

An artist's depiction of the James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed in space.

How the James Webb Space Telescope works in pictures

By Rahul Rao published

The James Webb Space Telescope, also known as Webb or JWST, is a high-capability space observatory designed to revolutionize astronomy.

Earth is surrounded by a giant magnetic bubble called the magnetosphere, which is part of a dynamic, interconnected system that responds to solar, planetary and interstellar conditions.

41,000 years ago, auroras blazed near the equator

By Mindy Weisberger published

A geomagnetic event around 41,000 years ago sent the aurora wandering for centuries, as far south as the equator.

Image of the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field

Weird quantum objects known as Q balls could explain why we exist

By Ashley Hamer published

Bizarre quantum objects called Q balls could explain why the universe if filled with matter and ultimately why we exist.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is seen during payload fairing encapsulation ahead of its installation atop its Ariane 5 rocket for a Dec. 24, 2021 launch from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope officially set to launch Dec. 24

By Elizabeth Howell published

NASA's newest flagship observatory is about to begin an incredible journey and now has an official launch date: Dec. 24.

Artist's illustration of the surface of a planet in the TRAPPIST-1 system, which hosts seven roughly Earth-size worlds.

Fermi Paradox: Where are the aliens?

By Elizabeth Howell published

The universe is incredibly old, incredibly large and teeming with potentially habitable planets. So why haven't we found any sign of aliens yet?

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter acquired this image of its own shadow with its navigation camera on Dec. 15, 2021, during the robot’s 18th Red Planet flight.

Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 18th Red Planet flight (video)

By Mike Wall published

Ingenuity has now spent nearly 33 minutes aloft in the Martian air and visited 10 different Red Planet airfields.

A 2014 image of Earth taken by the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite.

What makes Earth unique?

By Clara Moskowitz, Meghan Bartels published

Several factors make Earth unique given what scientists know about the thousands of planets discovered to date.

The geocentric model was accepted for nearly 1,500 years.

Geocentric model: The Earth-centered view of the universe

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

Reference The geocentric model is a debunked theory that the Earth is the center of the universe, with the sun and planets revolving around it.

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Time travel: wormhole

Is time travel possible?

By Vicky Stein, Ailsa Harvey published

REFERENCE Science says time travel is possible, but probably not in the way you're thinking.

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A Google doodle depicting French physicist and philosopher Émilie du Châtelet for her 315th birthday on Dec. 17, 2021.

Google celebrates 315th birthday of French physicist Émilie du Châtelet

By Meghan Bartels published

Google is celebrating the 315th birthday of Émilie du Châtelet, who was a physicist, translator, philosopher despite the exclusion of women from physics at the time.

A visualization of two black holes merging.

Black holes may have existed since the beginning of time (and could explain dark matter mystery)

By Tereza Pultarova published

The existence of primordial black holes in the earliest universe could explain dark matter as well as the sizes of black holes scientists can see today, a new study suggests.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the biggest orbital telescope ever built and is scheduled to be launched into space on Dec. 18, 2021.

Ask your James Webb Space Telescope questions on Space Chat, LIVE TODAY!

By Chelsea Gohd published

Today (Dec. 17), a special episode of Space Chat will cover all things James Webb Space Telescope!

An artist's illustration of the multiverse.

How real is the multiverse?

By Paul Sutter published

A multiverse may be a natural prediction of the physical theories that define the beginning of the universe.

Siberian wildfire have been growing in intensity year on year, with 2021's damage being the worst since record began.

UN confirms hottest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic

By Ben Turner published

The UN says temperatures were "more befitting the Mediterranean than the Arctic."

A selfie snapped by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, which has been exploring the Red Planet's Jezero Crater since February 2021.

NASA's Perseverance rover finds organic chemicals on Mars

By Mike Wall published

Perseverance has identified carbon-containing organic chemicals in some of the rocks it's examined on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter acquired this image of its own shadow during its 17th Red Planet flight, on Dec. 5, 2021.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity passes 30 minutes of total air time

By Elizabeth Howell published

The helicopter finished its 17th flight on Dec. 5, and is getting ready for an 18th as soon as Wednesday (Dec. 15).

water droplets

Water's ultimate freezing point just got lower

By Ashley Hamer published

By creating ice from tiny droplets only a few hundred molecules in size, researchers have pushed water's freezing point lower than ever before and changed what we know about how ice forms.

The new material works by forming triangles out of an atom's spin states.

Physicists create new state of matter from quantum soup of magnetically weird particles

By Ben Turner published

The messy quantum soup of spin states allows for quantum entanglement across an entire material.