Daily Archives: Dec 16, 2025

What makes a photograph of the universe unforgettable? Is it the burst of color, the dizziness-causing enormity, or the revelations about the history of the cosmos? For more than three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope and its infrared cousin, the Spitzer Space Telescope, have answered that question repeatedly with...

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," Carl Sagan once declared. That phrase is sounding loud and clear in scientific communities this year, as a recently discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS cuts across the solar system, stirring both excitement and controversy. First detected on July 1, 2025, by a Chile-based...

In the austral summer of 2014, sea ice around Antarctica dipped into a drop so precipitous and unbroken that it was already below thresholds of natural variability. A decade later, scientists claim the loss has entered a new regime a potential tipping point of the climate with impacts reverberating...