astronomy

A (Not Very) Scientific Overview of 2017

Humans did some good things this year! We promise!

What It Was Like to Wrestle With Neil deGrasse Tyson at Harvard, According to His Teammates

Before he became the world’s most famous living astrophysicist, TV host and popularizer of science, Neil deGrasse Tyson was a wrestler at Harvard University, where…

Why Everyone Is So Horny for the Eclipse

On August 21st, a total solar eclipse—when the moon passes between the sun and the earth—will skitter across the United States at 1,500 miles an…