Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...

Physicists have been chasing one of the universe’s strangest mysteries—neutrinos, nearly invisible particles that zip through ...

Wednesday, Jan. 8 and 15, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app —Discover how scientists are revealing new clues to the strangest and most extreme objects in the universe— They are ...

Go behind the scenes as NOVA visits the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. Equipped with an 8.4-meter mirror and a 3.2-billion-pixel camera—the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy—the Rubin ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker. Get ...

In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s deepest mysteries — why anything exists at all. By combining years of data ...