Somewhere in the deepest image James Webb has ever taken, thousands of galaxies are quietly turning. By every rule we have, they should spin in random directions. They don’t. Far too many turn the same way, and one explanation for that points somewhere staggering: that everything we can see might […]
A super El Niño is building in the Pacific. NOAA has placed the odds of one emerging by July at 82 percent, with a two-in-three chance it peaks as a strong or very strong event by Christmas. Some forecast models are projecting numbers that would make it the strongest El […]
For most of the last century, we treated Pluto like a frozen, forgotten rock, the final lonely signpost before deep space. But it turned out to be far stranger than that. Pluto has a wandering “heart,” a possible ocean buried beneath its ice, and volcanoes that seem to ooze slush […]
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified a population of “mysterious red dots” in the early universe. Unlike typical young, blue, and irregular galaxies, these objects appear compact, sharply defined, and exceptionally red. First identified during the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey, these points of […]
In 2019, the NOAA and NASA panel that officially forecasts the Sun’s activity predicted that the current solar cycle would be quiet, almost forgettable. Instead, it’s run roughly forty percent stronger than they forecast and arrived nearly a year early. The models the world depends on to protect satellites and […]
Standing on Titan, the air above your head would weigh almost half as much as it does on Earth. The pressure at the surface is roughly 1.45 atmospheres. Almost everything in that atmosphere is nitrogen, just as it is on Earth, but with a crucial difference. The remaining few per […]
The deeper questions are still wide open. We don’t know whether the spacetime we live in is fundamentally holographic, the way the maths sometimes suggests. We don’t know whether our universe is sitting in a “false vacuum”, waiting for a bubble to form somewhere in the dark and undo everything. […]
As Voyager ages, every parameter of its components degrades: the transmitter weakens, the signal spreads across a vast distance, and the noise floor of the universe stays constant. The power available to send data dwindles while the distance it must travel grows relentlessly. The channel capacity of humanity’s furthest outpost […]
We are currently trapped inside an observational bubble 93 billion light-years across. Every piece of matter we interact with and every beam of light we capture, is permanently anchored to a single, flat surface. For most of human history, we assumed this isolated floor was the absolute limit of existence. […]
The April 2026 announcement arrived with its own visualisations, and these were the ones that did the heaviest lifting in conveying what had happened. The headline animation showed a model of the inner solar system. Every previously known asteroid was rendered as a dark blue point. Every new Rubin discovery […]
