These days, we are treated to glorious images of the cosmos through astrophotography and sophisticated three-dimensional visualizations of the universe. In the early centuries of astronomy, however, ...

A newly discovered cluster of objects called the “inner kernel” of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of ...

For the past five hundred years, we’ve been looking out at the universe and assuming that we, with our little planet and our little solar system, were nothing special. And then we sent out a probe to ...