Of Worlds Beyond

The history of spaceflight is the story of weirdos, explosions, and stacked odds.

The cast of Worlds Beyond Number and Dungeon Master Brennan Lee Mulligan are teaching me things about D&D that no rulebook ever can.

The prototype BlueWalker 3 satellite is now one of the brightest objects in the night sky. Astronomers are worried about even bigger, brighter satellites that are on the way.

The latest Miles Morales adventure somehow makes the multiverse not suck.

Evidence of alien worlds goes back farther than you think

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, sustainability and preservation efforts here on Earth are as much of a priority as rocket launches, spacecraft, and the

Netflix's The Witcher and HBO's House of the Dragon are both great fantasy shows in their ways; however one may have the upper hand.

So far, the search for a truly Earth-like world has turned up empty.

Overall, "space miso" tastes just like regular miso—but slight differences in its microbial profile suggest that extraterrestrial conditions affect how microbes grow and flourish

A new catalog of the masses and widths of 126 new exoplanets showcases the extreme and exotic nature of worlds beyond the solar system.

Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the biggest known batch of planet-making ingredients swirling around a young star. The diameter of this...

Moons circling exoplanets would be some of the most promising places to look for life outside our solar system. Now, we might finally be about to find these elusive objects

Why our knowledge of exoplanets has exploded in the last three decades.

All About space issue 126 explores distant alien worlds, the Big Bang theory and a star that shouldn't exist.

The Webb Space Telescope probed eternal sunrises and sunsets on exoplanet WASP-39b. It found differences in the atmospheres. The post Eternal sunrises, sunsets viewed on distant exoplanet first appeared on EarthSky.

Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the biggest known batch of planet-making ingredients in the cosmos

Watch out for lava.

For centuries, scientific discoveries have suggested humanity occupies no privileged place in the universe. Now, however, studies of worlds beyond our solar system could place meaningful new limits on our existential mediocrity

"A note for each newly discovered world."