‘SPECIAL REPORTS’ Archives

Shortly after the Big Bang, the Universe was hot and dense, a plasma of quarks … “The Early Universe was Hot, Dense, and Soupy”

The oxygen in a galaxy does not sit still. It spreads, thins out, piles up, … “‘Space archaeologists’ use oxygen map to reconstruct a galaxy’s 12-billion-year past”

“Where, today, are the rulers and princes this land once knew? Where are similar officials … Rulers and Princes of Truth and Justice

Here’s a question that sounds simple but has kept cosmologists arguing for decades – how … “The Answer is Written in the Stars”

Astronomers have used a collection of telescopes to peer through the gas and dust obscuring … “Astronomers Produce the Largest Image Ever Taken of the Heart of the Milky Way”

Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 … “Expanding catalog of black hole collisions is rewriting the history of the universe”

“They say among themselves, as it will ever be said when men are deluded by … People Deluded by Matter forget the Wisdom of the Spiritual Leaders of the Past

A single particle cut through the Mediterranean in February 2023 carrying an almost absurd amount … “Black hole-powered blazars may explain the highest-energy neutrino ever detected”

Black holes are the densest objects in the universe. When they collide, they unleash ripples in spacetime known to … “A surge of discoveries of gravitational waves”

The Aurora Borealis and Australis have dazzled and inspired all those who have beheld them … “An International Team Uncovers What Powers Auroras”