Articles by

Adam Mann

How did dark matter shape the universe? This physicist has ideas

At age 12, Tracy Slatyer felt sorry for a book. She read a newspaper article about how...

2 spacecraft caught the waves that might heat and accelerate the solar wind

A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from...

The Webb telescope’s peek into a stellar nursery finds baby planets too

A distant stellar nursery holds a clutch of newborn Jupiter-sized worlds, the tiniest of which is...

A Dune-inspired spacesuit turns astronaut pee into drinking water

In the science-fiction series Dune, the desert-dwelling Fremen of the arid planet Arrakis recycle their body’s moisture...

Strange observations of galaxies challenge ideas about dark matter

Head-scratching observations of distant galaxies are challenging cosmologists’ dominant ideas about the universe, potentially leading to the...

Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole turn on for the first time

Somewhere in the not-too-distant universe, a galaxy named SDSS1335+0728 is waking up. Over the past four years,...

Human spaceflight’s new era is fraught with medical and ethical questions

They say that going to space changes you. Often, what’s being referenced is a shift in mindset,...

China’s Chang’e-6 snagged the first samples from the farside of the moon

China has become the first country to collect samples from the farside of the moon, hopefully providing...