When things look bleak, thinking in terms of āhope horizonsā can help
23 September 2020
With wildfires raging, the outlook looks bleak from San Francisco. Thinking about the future in terms of āhope horizonsā can help, writes Annalee Newitz
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Are dark matter and dark energy related in anything apart from name?
1 January 2020
There is no law of physics dictating that dark matter and dark energy canāt be connected, and it is natural to wonder about it, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
The solar system has too many moons ā it's time for a cull
23 October 2019
Designating rocks just a few kilometres across as moons is misleading and ridiculous. We need to do a Pluto and cut moons down to size, argues Leah Crane
How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets
7 August 2019
Exoplanets are abundant near the galaxy's smallest stars. Observing M dwarfs could teach us more about the worlds beyond our solar system, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
The message we're sending to nearby aliens is no threat to Earth
20 November 2017
Critics fear provoking hostile extraterrestrials by beaming messages to our closest exoplanets but there's no need to worry, says METI president Douglas Vakoch
More giant Earth-like exoplanets will be found next year
14 December 2016
Prepare for more exotic super-Earths as the hunt for exoplanets ramps up in 2017, says Stephen Baxter. They've already been imagined by science fiction
If Earth-like planet Proxima b has life, what might it be like?
24 August 2016
Author Stephen Baxter wonders if the newly discovered Proxima b could resemble Per Ardua, the life-bearing world he imagined around the same nearby star
