Daily Archives: Dec 16, 2025

It began, as such stories usually do, with a balloon over Antarctica and with some unexplained signals. Within weeks, there were headlines shouting of a "parallel universe where time reverses." The reality, as the scientists responsible for making the discovery have explained time and again, is much more complicated...

"No other planet in the solar system has as many inner small moons as Uranus," said Matthew Tiscareno of the SETI Institute. That tantalizing statement has gained further significance after astronomers with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered a previously unknown satellite in the ice giant's orbit. The...

For all that exorbitant cost, you've got a system you can't even fly, defense budget analyst Winslow T. Wheeler groused in an objection that remains valid today. The F-22 Raptor, long hailed as the ultimate air dominance asset, is a contradiction: unmatched in capability, yet shrouded in operational quirks...