This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... an Icarus-like “hot Saturn” 260 light-years from Earth, whirling around its parent star so rapidly that ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. On Earth, clothes make the man—and woman. In space, they’re the key to survival. Whether helping astronauts enter ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic ... through Earth’s atmosphere, first melting and then solidifying. The examples shown here—from Larsen’s new book, In ...

Interstellar dust clouds and inky stretches of deep space can appear dull to ordinary telescopes. But to a car-size telescope 26 million miles (41.8 million kilometers) from Earth, they are alive ...