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
Author: Philip Goff In the past 40 or so years, a strange fact about our Universe gradually made itself known to scientists: the laws of physics, and the initial conditions of our Universe, are fine-tuned for the possibility of life. … Read More
We’ve seen Mother Nature find ways to surprise us thousands of times in the past. She never gets tired of doing it, and we don’t get tired of witnessing her wonders. And we can say, with confidence, that there’s nothing more satisfying than seeing photographs that capture the masterful … Read More