Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# science
A new paper claims that the universe's expansion isn't accelerating. If that's true, we have to start rewriting cosmology as we know it.
# astrobiology
Oddly, this is a case when a few signals would make a better case for alien contact than hundreds.
# science
Fast radio bursts get even more mysterious with new detections and point to a new culprit: magnetically supercharged neutron stars.
# space
Early galaxies seem to grow a lot faster than they should. We finally know how.
# space
Let's say the worst happened and you've been sucked into a black hole as your body was torn apart. So, what happens to you next?
# space
No, fast radio bursts, or FRBs, aren't microwave noodles of impatient astronomers. They're a very real phenomenon the media just can't seem to get right.
# space
If you've heard about the Cold Spot, you may have read that it's caused by a strangely low density of galaxies in that area of the universe. But the truth is much, much weirder...
# space
The bizarre, extremely fast radio bursts astronomers have been detecting might be the result of doomed neutron stars...
# space
Tracking the speed of an event horizon can tell us what a black hole ate, give us a clue as to how it was formed, and whether it survived a major collision.
# space
On the largest cosmological scale, the universe is supposed to be homogenous. A new discovery puts that principle in question.