The Universe
The cosmos keeps stranger accounts than any ledger: diamond rain, impossible voids, and unexplained stars.
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There Is a Planet Made of Diamond Twice Earth's Size
40 light years away is a planet that may be one-third pure diamond.
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The Universe Has a Cold Spot That Shouldn't Exist
There's a void in space 1.8 billion light years wide where almost nothing exists.
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The Planet Where It Rains Diamonds
On Jupiter and Saturn, lightning forges soot into diamonds that fall as glittering rain.
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The Void So Big It Shouldn't Exist
A stretch of space 250 million light-years wide holds almost nothing at all.
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The Star That Shouldn't Be Possible
Tabby's Star dims by 22% with no pattern — and no explanation has ever fit.
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The Moon is leaving us at 3.8 cm per year
The Moon is slowly leaving Earth at 3.8 centimeters per year, about the speed your fingernails grow.
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Saturn would float in a giant bathtub
Saturn would float if you found a big enough bathtub.
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Neutron stars spin 700 times per second
Neutron stars can spin 700 times per second.
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There's a water reservoir in space with 140 trillion oceans
The largest water reservoir ever found is in space.
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