Final Frontier

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…

Mars, the red planet, has been the subject of ridicule and fascination for years. It's a planet with a meager 10% of Earth's mass, no magnetic field, and a paper-thin atmosphere. One could say Mars…

Weighing a galaxy sounds like an impossible task, right? I mean, we can’t just plop it on a cosmic bathroom scale and get a reading. But this question—"how do we measure the mass of a…

When the Hubble Space Telescope launched, it was like sending our best pair of glasses into space. Humanity had a chance to truly see the universe without Earth's pesky atmosphere blurring the view. But it…

At first glance, the question seems ridiculous. But believe it or not, physicists are grappling with the idea of a multiverse because it could solve two fundamental problems in cosmology. It sounds like the stuff…

Let’s get excited today because we’re about to witness the launch of one of the most anticipated space telescopes ever built—the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It’s a big deal, not just because of its…