More Than Just a Grey Rock: Bennu's Blue Hue and the Secrets of Our Solar System
More Than Just a Grey Rock: Bennu's Blue Hue and the Secrets of Our Solar System Most of us think of an asteroid as a rough, uninteresting, grey rock moving through space. That's quite close to the truth, for the most part. However, NASA's historic OSIRIS-REx mission has shown us that some of these space rocks are concealing some extremely colourful secrets. Bennu asteroid | Erika Blumenfeld / Joseph Aebersold / NASA Bennu is one such asteroid tha…
Uranus is finally in the Spotlight: 2025 Stellar Occultation Revealed Something Interesting
Uranus in the Spotlight – What the 7 April 2025 Stellar Occultation Taught Us “For a fleeting hour on 7 April 2025, a distant star winked out behind Uranus and in that darkness, planetary scientists saw more light than ever before.” When the ice giant Uranus glided in front of a star roughly 400 light‑years away, telescopes across western North America captured a perfectly timed stellar occultation . The one‑hour alignment co‑ordinated by NASA’s Langley Re…
2025 Double-Slit Experiment: A New Emerging Controversy
Last updated June 25, 2025 The classic double‑slit experiment has mesmerized scientists and the public alike for more than two centuries. Initially used to demonstrate the wave nature of light, it later became a cornerstone of quantum mechanics when it revealed the bizarre phenomenon of wave-particle duality. When individual photons or electrons are fired through two slits, they appear to interfere with themselves suggesting that a single quantum particle can behave like a wave, occupying multiple paths simultan…
The Growing Threat of Space Debris
The Growing Threat of Space Debris: Humanity’s Orbital Dilemma As humanity ventures further into space, a silent crisis is unfolding above our heads the build-up of space debris orbiting Earth . This ever-expanding cloud of defunct satellites, rocket fragments, and other human-made objects poses a serious threat to current and future space missions. What once seemed like a minor issue has now become a major obstacle to space sustainability. The risk of collision is no longer hypothetical it’s happening. If left unchecked, this debris could…
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From Newton to Entropic Gravity: The Evolving History of What Pulls Us Down
Introduction: Is Gravity Really What We Think It Is? For centuries, gravity has been one of the most mysterious yet familiar forces in nature. We drop an apple and watch it fall; we orbit the Sun thanks to gravity's pull. But is gravity truly a fundamental force of nature? Or could it be something more surprising—like a consequence of thermodynamics and entropy? In this post, we’ll explore the remarkable journey of gravitational theory—from Newton’s elegant equations to Einstein’s revolutionary spacetime—and dive into the boldest modern…
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