Look deep enough into the darkness of space, you’ll find all manner of shapes that stir the imagination. Keep staring, you’ll quickly learn that our Universe can be so much stranger and more wondrous...
We’re getting closer to resolving the strange mystery presented by hundreds of enormous filaments dangling through the heart of the Milky Way. For the first time, these long, magnetized filaments glowing in radio waves...
Everything in the Universe has gravity – and feels it too. Yet this most common of all fundamental forces is also the one that presents the biggest challenges to physicists. Albert Einstein’s theory of...
When it comes to dramatic and awe-inspiring pictures of space, few can contend with what appears to be a pic of, well, nothing at all: a fascinating image of what seems to be a...
The history of Earth’s bombardment with cosmic radiation is written in the trees. Specifically, when radiation slams into Earth’s atmosphere, it can alter any nitrogen atoms it slams into to produce a form of...