Imagine a galaxy teeming with worlds that never see a sunrise. Astronomers call them rogue planets – loners flung from their birth systems or born in the cold between the stars – and they’re turning up more often than anyone expected. The mystery is deliciously thorny: for years, scattered discoveries hinted at a hidden ...
For centuries, humanity gazed upward, believing it understood the grand mechanics of the cosmos. But in the past few years, discoveries from distant galaxies, dying stars, and even the edges of our solar system have turned those beliefs upside down. From black holes that shouldn’t exist to planets where life might thrive in unimaginable conditions, ...
In spaceflight, the next two decades won’t be a quiet cruise; they’ll be a sprint through a maze of firsts. Crews will push past low-Earth orbit again, cargo will land on the Moon like delivery trucks, and robotic scouts will peel back mysteries from icy moons to near‑Earth asteroids. The stakes are high: climate monitoring ...
Cosmologists have believed for a long time that dark energy the mysterious factor that accelerates the expansion of the universe–was a constant, indestructible presence. However, the latest information obtained from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) indicates this is not the situation. Instead, the impact of dark energy may diminish as time passes, a finding ...
