If you stepped outside tomorrow night and the Moon was simply gone, the sky wouldn’t just look wrong – it would mean our entire planet had slipped into a new, dangerous story. For most of us, the Moon feels like background scenery, a reliable white coin in the dark that rises and sets whether ...
Space has a reputation for being cold, empty, and predictable, but the closer scientists look, the weirder it gets. Black holes hum, planets rain metal, and there are entire stars so dense a teaspoon of them would outweigh skyscrapers. With every new telescope and mission, the universe behaves less like a neat physics textbook ...
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 ...
