Astronomy

(Image via It's Okay to be Smart) Adam Frank talks about Sagan's immortal line, and...

... the force without which there would be no life, and thus no meaning or...

BBC Future has provided us with a colorful application for twiddling with the variables in...

I'm feeling very small and vulnerable right now. ! The swirling, writhing shapes seen in...

The last video on an astronomical ... excuse me, "astronomical" topic was strangely unpopular. So...

This is a visualization of the Bolshoi Simulation, an attempt to chart the evolution of...

Patryk Kizny, Robert Paluch and Fabian Weber put together a timelapse view of the Swiss...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been orbiting the moon for the past two years, taking...

Open Culture has put together a list of its top 125 science videos. These range...

Here are a series of black & white images taken by the Cassini-Huygens Imaging Science...

Nick Risinger has been traveling North and South America and snapping picture of the night...

The Australian branch of the Gemini Observatory held a contest for Australian high school students,...

From NASA: When a rather large M 3.6 class flare occurred near the edge of...

Duane over at Abnormal Interests talks about people who refuse to trust the experts. Along...

I normally wouldn't rip a headline (or even a story) straight from the Micro$haft Network,...

Now, I know I should probably take this all a little more seriously, and I...

Please welcome our friend custador, a long time outspoken commentator here at UF. This is...

Interesting news coming from the Cassani probe: Something strange is afoot in the atmosphere of...

by VorJack "Great revolutions in science have a common denominator: They knock human arrogance off...

Faithful commenter trj wrote up a thoughtful comment the other day about what might have...

This is a guest post by Daniel LaVine. Before the 1920's, the Milky Way galaxy...

Michio Kaku says we may be on the verge of "a new Copernican revolution" when it comes to...

This is a bit painful to watch. I can imagine housewives everywhere nodding their heads...

Astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder...