It’s been a cloudy season for Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Titan is an strange world, resembling Earth if the land was made of water ice, rivers and seas were filled with liquid methane and other hydrocarbons, and the atmosphere was … Read More
During a time that humankind’s ancestors were learning to walk upright, use their hands, and create the first primitive tools, cosmic events left a mark in our galaxy that our developed society would later see, millions of years later. Five … Read More
A few years ago, five Arizona friends planned to launch a GoPro camera and a phone into the upper atmosphere in a weather balloon to capture footage of space. College students Bryan Chan, Ved Chirayath, Ashish Goel, Paul Tarantino, and … Read More
Goodbye, little comet – we barely knew you. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, observed a comet brightening as it approached the Sun – until the heat became too much … Read More
Why has humanity never (that we know of) been visited by aliens? Scientists have been baffled by the question for decades, but two researchers have proposed a possible – and disturbing – explanation: Advanced civilizations may be doomed to stagnate … Read More
Scientists claim that evidence for past universes may exist in the night sky, specifically the remnants of black holes from another universe. According to New Scientist, the concept is based on conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC). This is the theory that … Read More