Some space images have become timeless icons of our exploration of the cosmos. Take the famous photo of the Pillars of ...

But zoom in a bit more and those specs become goats standing on the seemingly vertical construction. So what’s happening?! Image via Imgur / Wikipedia. The goats in the picture are called Alpine ibex ...

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of reionization. It holds clues to the first stars and galaxies, and perhaps the nature ...

Greensboro. He has authored twelve books and more than 180 academic articles, which have been translated into Arabic, Chinese ...

Elizabeth Quill is a science writer and editor based near Washington, DC. She’s fascinated by how complexity — in our cosmos, ...

Many known languages, for example, have no words for numerals above 2 or 3. A linguist who curated a database of the world’s ...