Posts by Jenny Preils

Imagine this: The year is one billion AD. The Sun has become a much brighter, angrier version of itself, pouring out enough heat to turn Earth into a giant oven. Everything on the surface is…

Remember the good old days when the Solar System was simple? Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. A neat little mnemonic like “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas”…

Alright, flat-Earth believers, take a seat. This one’s not for you. But here's a consolation: while the Earth isn’t flat, the universe might be. Yep, you heard that right. The universe, vast, infinite, and expanding,…

The moon landing – the granddaddy of all conspiracy theories. No matter how much evidence there is, some people still can't wrap their heads around it. I once met the first man to set foot…

Most people know the first words ever spoken on the Moon. But how many of us can recall the last words spoken there? On December 14, 1972, as Commander Gene Cernan of Apollo 17 prepared…

Ever since that iconic image of a black hole was captured in 2019, even the staunchest skeptics have had to admit: black holes are real. These cosmic giants, first predicted mathematically by Einstein in 1916…