And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...

Humans are becoming increasingly adept at tapping into the 380 trillion terajoules of energy put out every second by the great thermonuclear reactor in the sky, using this virtually limitless energy ...

An engineer who left the south-east Asian country of Myanmar as a child is now spear-heading efforts to provide solar power to hospitals in remote areas there. According to a 2023 World Bank report, ...

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might ...

Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size to Pluto. So, during the summer of 2006, members of the International ...