Latest articles by Adam Mann
Super space sunblock made from skin pigment could shield astronauts from radiation
Better shielding through chemistry
Astronomers discover South Pole Wall, a gigantic structure stretching 1.4 billion light-years across
Strands in the intergalactic web
Schrödinger's cat: The favorite, misunderstood pet of quantum mechanics
To meow or not to meow?
To find intelligent alien life, humans may need to start thinking like an extraterrestrial
Anthropologist reveals a potentially big flaw in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
No One Can Agree How Fast Universe Is Expanding. New Measure Makes Things Worse.
We just might need new physics to get out of this mess.
Bright Star Betelgeuse Might Be Harboring a Deep, Dark Secret
A new model suggests that the star Betelgeuse committed an act of cannibalism.
Origin of Deep-Space Radio Flash Discovered, and It's Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Ever Seen
Mysterious ultra-fast pinpricks of radio energy keep lighting up the night sky and nobody knows why.
Gravitational-Wave Discovery Reveals Spectacular Crash of Neutron Stars, the 2nd Known
For the second time ever, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has spotted two ultradense stellar remnants known as neutron stars violently crashing together.
Exotic 'Fuzzy' Dark Matter May Have Created Giant Filaments Across the Early Universe
Simulations help distinguish a cosmos containing fuzzy dark matter from one without it.
Can You Count Past Infinity?
How many different types of infinity are there, and can we count past any of them?
Cosmic Record Holders: The 12 Biggest Objects in the Universe
Things that make you go whoa!
Why Is It So Hard to Land on the Moon?
Despite the fact that humans landed on the moon many times during the Apollo missions half a century ago, doing so remains a tough business.
Meet the 'Giant Elephant Trunks,' Mysterious Cosmic Structures 10 Times Bigger Than the 'Pillars of Creation'
Astronomers have spotted enormous column-shaped structures called Giant Elephant's Trunks in the galaxy
Scientists Are Building a Real-Life Version of the Starship Enterprise's Life Scanner
A novel method relying on biochemistry could provide an unambiguous signal of life on other worlds.
