Tag: astronomy

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Of the 100 trillion neutrinos that pass through you every second, ...

Graham tried tweaking the CNN approach so that the kernel would only be placed on 3-by-3 sections of the image ...

I discovered over the past several years that I’m not as rare as I once thought I was. There are ...

The NANOGrav team was essentially able to turn the Milky Way into a giant gravitational wave detector by measuring the ...

Throngs of satellites are streaking across the Hubble Space Telescope’s field of view, leaving what look like scratch marks on ...

Intriguingly, this kind of decoherence will occur anywhere there is a horizon that only allows information to travel in one ...

In the early 2000s, Phil Plait wrote his first book, Bad Astronomy, which debunked conspiracy theories and fallacies, like the idea ...

Nearly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the primordial plasma of the infant universe cooled enough for the first atoms ...