Dr. John Wilkins, warden of Wadham College at Oxford, was a natural philosopher who lived from 1614 until 1672. While he was an accomplished intellectual who had the freedom to pursue any number of scientific…
An asteroid as big as the Egyptian pyramids is zooming towards Earth and will squeeze past us on Friday – if it doesn’t smash on to our home planet’s surface. Named 2019 WR3, NASA expects the space…
A black hole with a mass 70 times greater than the Sun was discovered, leaving scientists stunned. “Black holes of such mass should not even exist in our Galaxy, according to most of the current…
Probably not, but there are reasons to be optimistic about our near-future prospects. In the past three decades, scientists have found more than 4,000 exoplanets. And the discoveries will keep rolling in; observations suggest that every…
A 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite landed in Algeria in 1990, the remnant of a larger asteroid born during the dawn of our solar system. New analysis of the meteorite, called Acfer 049, has revealed ice fossils…
Physics centers essentially on four forces that control our known, visible universe, governing everything from the production of heat in the sun to the way your laptop works. They are gravity, electromagnetism, the weak nuclear…
A typical but existentially terrifying feature of almost every galaxy is a monster lurking at its center: A supermassive black hole which can be hundreds or even billions of times the mass of our sun. The supermassive…
The formation of galaxies is a complex dance between matter and energy, occurring on a stage of cosmic proportions and spanning billions of years. How the diversity of structured and dynamic galaxies we observe today…
Mars has a very tenuous atmosphere, roughly 1 percent of Earth’s own, which is overwhelmingly made of carbon dioxide. Tiny fractions of other gases have been measured and studied over time, leading to several puzzling…
You’ve managed to travel tens of thousands of light-years beyond the solar system. Bravely facing the depths of the great interstellar voids, you’ve witnessed some of the most achingly beautiful and outrageously powerful events in…
The theory of Orion been connected to the position of the pyramids has already become a classic ever since the book The Mystery of Orion, written by Robert Bauval first appeared in the 1990s. One…
It was a clear summer afternoon in Lake Tahoe, California in the late 70’s when I saw my first UFO. The rough-hewn cigar-shaped craft hovered for a long period of time at a distance over…
A bright fireball meteor streaked across the night sky above Missouri Monday (Nov. 11), passing over St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch. The giant flash of light came from a meteor traveling east to west across the state.…