Category: 7. Science

There are some logical things we know to be true: working out is tiring. And being tired helps you fall asleep. But exercise before bed can sometimes have the opposite effect. I have personal experience with this: At one point I was attending a

A ‘shadow’ cast on the faint, leftover glow of the Big Bang has revealed a giant object in the early Universe that defies our predictions of how the Universe should evolve.

It’s a galaxy cluster named SPT2349-56. Spotted a mere 1.4 billion years…

This week, AAS Nova and Astrobites are attending the American Astronomical Society (AAS) winter meeting in Phoenix, AZ.

AAS Nova Editors Kerry Hensley and Susanna Kohler and AAS Media Fellow Lexi Gault will join Astrobites Media Intern…

Whenever I visited my grandmother, Laura, at her senior-living community, I felt like a celebrity. She seemed to know everyone, and was so loved — the folks there were all too happy to tell me so.

We often played…

A new Special Report published in the journal BioScience warns that long-term ecological and evolutionary research faces severe threats from lack of recurring funding and governmental/institutional support, to data manipulation and…

Galaxies might be separated by hundreds of thousands of light-years at the very least, but they do occasionally merge. During those collisions, the supermassive black holes that sit at the center of those galaxies can become active, entering a…