Space & Universe
Leave the familiar behind. Travel from our night sky to alien worlds, black holes and galaxies whose light began its journey billions of years ago.
Explore the universe ↓The universe is larger, stranger and more beautiful than everyday life suggests.
Here, wonder and evidence travel together. Explore what astronomy has discovered, what remains unknown, and the questions that make us want to keep looking.
Looking Deep Into the Universe: What the James Webb Space Telescope Lets Us See
Travel billions of years into cosmic history and discover why looking farther into space also means looking backward in time.
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Worlds Beyond Our Sun: The Search for Strange New Planets
Explore exoplanets—worlds orbiting other stars—and imagine skies with two suns, endless oceans, scorching clouds or conditions unlike anything on Earth.
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At the Edge of a Black Hole: Where Our Everyday Intuition Breaks Down
Explore event horizons, gravity and the extraordinary physics that makes black holes among the universe’s most compelling objects.
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Could Life Exist Elsewhere? What Science Can Ask Without Pretending We Already Know
Explore the scientific search for life beyond Earth—from habitable environments and biosignatures to the enormous uncertainty that keeps the question open.
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Voyager: Humanity’s Tiny Message Drifting Toward Interstellar Space
Follow the Voyager probes from the outer planets toward the space between stars and discover the Golden Record created as a message from Earth.
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The Night Sky Is a Time Machine: A Journey From the Moon to Ancient Galaxies
Take an imaginative trip outward through space and discover how every glance into the night sky is also a look into different layers of the past.
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