Every so often, astronomy pulls the rug out from under us and replaces our quiet mental picture of the cosmos with something stranger, bigger, and far less comforting. In just a few human lifetimes, we’ve gone from thinking of Earth as the calm center of creation to realizing we live on a small rock orbiting ...
Ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what secrets it holds? You’re about to find out things that will completely shift how you think about the cosmos. Space isn’t just empty darkness dotted with stars. It’s alive with bizarre phenomena, hidden structures, and revelations that challenge everything scientists thought they knew. The discoveries ...
You know that feeling when you peer into something so vast, so extreme, that your mind struggles to comprehend it? That’s exactly what lies at the heart of your own galaxy. Not some distant enigma in a faraway corner of the universe, but right here in our cosmic backyard sits one of the most powerful ...
Space rocks plummeting through Earth’s atmosphere carry more than just cosmic debris. Inside these ancient messengers, scientists have uncovered materials so bizarre they challenge everything we thought we knew about the early solar system. From impossible crystals to the raw ingredients of life itself, are revealing secrets that could rewrite our understanding of how ...
The last few years have been a blur of jaw-dropping space science, the kind that forces you to rewrite old notes and scrap comfortable assumptions. Telescopes peered deeper, probes flew braver, and data sets quietly whispered new truths about the cosmos. As a science journalist, I’ve watched seasoned researchers blink in surprise as theories bent ...
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 ...
Mercury’s moon Scientists have long been enthralled with Europa as one of the most likely locations to find life other than Earth. Now, ground-breaking James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations show that its icy surface is far more dynamic than first thought shifting, cracking, and recrystallizing in a few weeks. These quick changes imply that ...
Today Mars is a frozen desert devoid of flowing water and with a rusty surface scuffed by dust storms. But billions of years ago, the Red Planet might have been a planet of rushing rivers, glittering lakes, even rain or snow falling from alien heavens. Suggesting Mars was far wetter and maybe warmer than previously ...
