Author Madelyn Broome

Soon, we may be able to peer back in time and “see the first light in the universe.” NASA has been using this bold promise to generate buzz for the 2018 James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). But, the...

1,963. That is the number of confirmed exoplanets as of March 2016, according to NASA. With a backlog of 4,696 potential exoplanet candidates, the number is likely to keep rocketing upwards, just as it has...

For more than a decade it has been widely accepted that the center of the Milky Way is not, in fact, nougaty caramel, but a supermassive black hole. Due to the nature of the region surrounding the black hole,...

What is redshift? Everyone is familiar with the sound a passing siren makes: the distant noise, the buildup, the peak in pitch as it passes you, and finally the fading of the siren as the vehicle races into...