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The Weird Space That Lies Outside Our Solar System

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 9, 2020October 19, 2022

Launched in the 1970s, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 — the first two spacecraft and human-made objects to leave our solar system — have reached interstellar space and now beam back images from this mysterious region.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

What Falls to Earth

by Susanna Space January 25, 2019October 19, 2022

Grieving the mysterious death of her father, Susanna Space seeks refuge in the study of meteors.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction

What Falls to Earth

by Susanna Space January 25, 2019October 19, 2022

Grieving the mysterious death of her father, Susanna Space seeks refuge in the study of meteors.

Posted inFeature

The Hunt for Planet Nine

by Shannon Stirone January 22, 2019October 18, 2022

What will it take to find the biggest missing object in our solar system?

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature

The Telescope That Sees into the Heart of Hawaii

by Aaron Gilbreath February 21, 2017October 19, 2022

Trevor Quirk reports on how native Hawaiians protested the construction of a telescope on spiritual grounds — the presence of which cuts to the very question of who gets to decide what happens on Hawaiian soil — and who the soil belongs to.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Practical Cartography: I Am Mapped, Therefore I Am

by michelleweber February 8, 2017October 19, 2022

Lois Parshley’s wide-ranging, fascinating story on mapping the unmapped — from black holes, to the bottom of the sea, to the populations of the Congo and Haiti — looks at not just the science of map-making, but the morality.

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Quotes

The Weirdness of Near-Future America

by A. N. Devers May 27, 2015October 19, 2022

You, Little Sylvia, will come up knowing the truth, but to the rest of the world–to jellyfishes, crackers, finkies, and swells, to Bosom families and Consolidated alike–the stars are not real. The planets are not real. Astronomy, if spoken of al all, is regarded as a delusional cult scarcely more respectable than the Jesus Lovers. […]

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