Galaxies

A new album from the group One Ring Zero envisions a journey through the solar system and beyond

Could modern civilization really come to an end? Experts take stock of eight doomsday scenarios

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

A new study proposes that ultrahigh-energy particles from space may have violent local origins, but not all observations are in agreement

The influential decadal survey champions the pursuit of potentially habitable worlds but offers few details for the near future

Dark energy and exoplanets prioritized by decadal survey.

Einstein@Home, a distributed computing project searching primarily for gravitational waves, has found its first pulsar

Sometimes we forget where a story really starts. Are electric cars new? Where did malaria start? Who invented spaghetti? Read on, for the surprising origins of many strange and familiar things

The European Space Agency's Planck mission team has released the spacecraft's first full map , charting the entire sky from August 2009 to June 2010.