Daily Archives: Dec 12, 2025

"Substantial programmatic adjustments at NASA must be made in a strategic manner so that risks are managed with care." These are the words, from the Voyager Declaration that have been signed by more than 150 NASA employees, ringing out with urgency as the White House-proposed 24% cut in the...

It starts not with the rocket's thunder, but with a quiet, merciless metamorphosis: the instant an astronaut steps out of Earth's gravity, his or her body begins a journey as transformative as the journey itself. Beyond all the wonder of orbit, the human body enters an alien environment, and...

Is the world speeding our clocks or merely providing timekeepers with a cosmic headache? The Earth will finish turning 1.34 milliseconds sooner than the usual 24 hours on July 22, 2025, the second shortest day on record. To the overwhelming majority, it will be a momentary, inconsequential flash. But...