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A planet-like star with water clouds

Someplace Like Home? Hunting for Life-Supporting Worlds

By Kelen Tuttle published

A recently discovered planet-like star may offer insight into which of the thousands of planets so far discovered in the universe could support life.

Search for Life
Black hole visualization

Bringing the Universe to Life

By Kelen Tuttle published

By immersing viewers in dramatically intricate 3D universes, Ralf Kaehler, Stuart Levy and Dylan Nelson enable new perspectives on the cosmos.

The Universe
Artist's impression of Kepler 186f

The Hunt for Exoplanets Heats Up

By Kelen Tuttle published

Where is humanity in the search for planets beyond our solar system, and what will the next decade bring?

Exoplanets
BICEP2 sunset

Cosmic Inflation: Have Scientists Indeed Found the Smoking Gun? (Q+A)

By Kelen Tuttle published

How strong is the proof for cosmic inflation, the event that drove the Big Bang?

The Universe
BICEP2 telescope, origins of theuniverse

BICEP2 and the Origins of the Universe: Behind the Buzz

By Kelen Tuttle published

Digging deeper into the findings from BICEP2 — how and what drove the Big Bang.

The Universe
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the distribution of dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 1689, containing about 1,000 galaxies and trillions of stars. Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that accounts for most of

Searching High and Low for Dark Matter (Q+A)

By Bruce Lieberman published

Astrophysicists are getting to the depth of dark matter.

The Universe
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