astronomy

Science & Tech

What might life on another planet look like?

After contemplating our solar system for thousands of years, we’re suddenly confronted with how limited our vision has been

Adam Frank

Gazing at the eclipse in Walt Whitman’s perfect silence

Is it possible to love a science, or any branch of knowledge, despite one’s abysmal ignorance thereof?

Bill Kauffman

The wonders of the James Webb Space telescope

‘I find myself lying awake at three in the morning wondering if everything I’ve ever done is wrong’

Adam Frank

Stargazing under lockdown

The late great American astronomer Leslie Peltier was onto something

Bill Kauffman

Books

Believing in big data is equivalent to believing in the stars

A Scheme of Heaven: The History of Astrology and the Search for our Destiny in Data by Alexander Boxer reviewed

Simon Ings