You can’t feel it when you step outside at night, but the Moon is quietly drifting away from Earth, retreating by a thumb’s width every year. That tiny shift hides a sweeping story about tides, time, and the fragile geometry that makes total solar eclipses possible. Scientists have pinned down this recession with millimeter precision, ...
Every single moment of your life, as you sit reading this, you’re hurtling through space at an absolutely mind-boggling speed. Not just spinning on Earth’s axis or orbiting the Sun, but racing through the vast expanse of our galaxy at velocities that would make even the fastest spacecraft seem like a snail. This cosmic journey ...
The cosmos has always been humanity’s greatest puzzle, and our own solar system continues to throw curveballs at even the most brilliant minds. Despite decades of space exploration, advanced telescopes, and countless missions, there are still phenomena in our cosmic neighborhood that leave scientists scratching their heads. From strange magnetic fields to missing planets, these ...
Mars’s rust-colored desserts, towering volcanoes, and tantalizing prospect of ancient life have enthralled people for millennia. Benevolent on its surface, though, lurks a far stranger secret rife with rotten eggs. Recent discoveries in science imply that the Martian core is not only an iron and nickel molten ball like that of Earth. Rather, it might ...
A recently discovered celestial body is rewriting our knowledge of the Kuiper Belt and maybe challenging the existence of the elusive Planet Nine deep in the cold margins of our solar system. Called 2017 OF 201, this mysterious trans-Neptunian object (TNO) has an orbit so extreme it takes 25,000 years to complete one trip around ...
Soham Mahajan, B.Sc. Media
Soham Mahajan, B.Sc. Media
