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TW Hydrae is a young star sporting a beautiful protoplanetary disk that is almost perfectly face-on from our perspective. Within that disk, dark tracks have captivated astronomers who believe they hold clues to the earliest stages of planetary formation...

First published in Singletrack Magazine Issue 106. For subscriptions options click below: Subscription Options Chipps gets his long-held prejudices about Los Angeles blown apart by friendly locals and incredible trails within sight of the city. Words...

Every spring, residents of Pasadena, California confront a phenomenon they call ‘June Gloom’: the sunny climate of this idyllic, wealthy town east of Los Angeles grows uncharacteristically dark. Oppressive cirrus clouds the color of TV static blow in...

This image shows the dusty disk of planetary material surrounding the young star HD 141569, located 380 light-years away from Earth. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech A new device on the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has delivered its first images, showing...

A view of the surface of the planet Proxima orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System. (Photo by M. Kornmesser/Reuters/ESO) A newly discovered planet, designated by the unglamorous identifier of OGLE-2005-BLG...