The Unraveling of Cosmic Certainties For nearly a decade, the minor planet Chariklo has held a unique, unsettling position in our astronomical understanding. Its discovery in 2013, with two distinct rings orbiting an object barely 250 kilometers Read More
The Deep Time Mirror: Precedent for Planetary Scale A new paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences offers unnervingly precise details on how Earth incinerated its dominant lifeforms 66 million years ago: a superheated atmosphere, Read More
The Quiet Resource Race Begins A recent gravitational assist from Mars, executed by NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, was more than just a routine orbital maneuver. While the Jet Propulsion Laboratory navigators celebrated a precise trajectory Read More