Light takes time to travel, and that simple truth turns the James Webb Space Telescope into a time machine. When Webb opens its golden eye, it doesn’t just catch distant starlight – it intercepts messages that left their sources when Earth was still cosmic dust. In newsroom terms, every image is a breaking story filed ...
Far beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, deep within a network of caverns that were cut into ancient rock, scientists search for an answer that has evaded man for thousands of years: why is there something, rather than nothing, in the Universe? The question is not simply philosophical, it’s a basic problem of physics. ...
The idea sounds like science fiction: a distant star explodes, and millions of years later, life in Earth’s oceans and on land subtly changes course because of it. Yet over the last decade, a convergence of astrophysics, geology, and biology has turned that wild notion into a serious scientific discussion. Radioactive fingerprints in deep‑sea rocks, ...
The universe is supposed to run on rules, yet the deeper astronomers look, the stranger those rules seem to become. With every new space telescope or detector we launch, the cosmos offers up another puzzle that bends our expectations, and sometimes our patience. For all our breakthroughs in physics, from black holes to exoplanets, ...
