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For tonight's live QA, I'll be joined by Anton Petrov, a math and science teacher who talks about space and…

NASA’s GRACE satellites have measured an increasing rate of ice melt in Greenland. According to new analysis by researchers at…

Renowned space scientist Dr. James A. Van Allen died this morning at the age of 91. Although he had a…

The Earth’s atmosphere keeps us safe from the harsh environment of space, but it also obscures our view into the…

Every clear evening, as twilight dissolves into night, untold thousands of telescopes scattered across the globe turn toward the great…

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this image of the star Rigel passing behind Saturn’s atmosphere. Rigel is well known to astronomers,…

On this week's live QA, I got a chance to talk with David Brin, a science fiction author, futurist, and…

One of the best meteor showers of the year – the Perseids – will get washed out by a nearly…

In this week's QA, I explain why dark matter is really a thing, and not just some made up thing…

Nearly every single astronomical measurement depends on the Hubble constant, a number that calculates the expansion of the Universe. NASA’s…