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, ...
You probably don’t spend much time worrying about what lurks in the far reaches of space. Why would you? Out there, beyond the comforting glow of our Sun, things are happening that would make your worst nightmares seem tame by comparison. The universe is not just beautiful and awe-inspiring. It’s also packed with objects so ...
You’ve probably worried about plenty of things in your life. Maybe it’s that upcoming presentation at work. Perhaps it’s whether you remembered to lock the front door. Or possibly it’s that spider you saw but then lost track of in your bedroom. Most people don’t spend much time contemplating the possibility of a microscopic black ...
Picture this: you wake up tomorrow morning, glance up at the sky, and notice something is terribly wrong. The Moon, our celestial companion that has watched over Earth for billions of years, is nowhere to be found. It’s simply vanished into the cosmic void, leaving behind only stars scattered across the darkness. What follows this ...
Mario Rana, an amateur astronomer and NASA contributor, pointed his telescope at Saturn on the morning of July 5, 2025. He may have seen history being made. Astronomers around the world are trying to figure out if this was the first time anyone has ever seen an impact on Saturn. There was a brief but ...
