Astronomy

And how the family business first took me there.

There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its last surviving remnants.

The series of fortunate astrophysical events that gave us Ceres.

Cosmologists are using secondary signatures from the cosmic microwave background to map the universe’s hidden matter.

One question for Jillian Scudder, astrophysicist and author of “The Milky Way Smells of Rum & Raspberries.”

The time is now to prepare for the cosmic object that could spell our end.

One question for Miguel Aragon, a computational physicist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Extraterrestrial life doesn’t need to be intelligent to be worth finding.

One question for Paul Sutter, a theoretical cosmologist at Stony Brook University.

One question for Joseph Silk, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University.

An astrobiologist annotates what we are seeing in this James Webb Space Telescope image.

Persistence, says Lindy Elkins-Tanton, has led to her success in science.

Seven years after their discovery, the ripples in spacetime have opened new windows on the universe’s deepest secrets.

Why Earth wasn’t swept into the dustbin of space.

How advanced civilizations could leave us a message of their presence.