Tag: Interstellar

The most common stars possess about a tenth of the mass of the Sun. A good example is the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, located 4.25 light years away and having 0.12 solar masses. Three rocky planets were reported to orbit that star: Proxima b with about 1.3 Earth masses, Proxima c with rough...

The scale of things is hard to grasp. The distance from Earth to the Moon — some four hundred thousand kilometers — is the shortest cosmic scale of any significance, but one that already stretches the imagination. The Apollo astronauts took three days to traverse that distance; a span th...

While working on the first interstellar meteor IM1 detected by US Government satellites, I received generous support from the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House which reached out to the US Space Command, leading to an official confirmation letter on the interstellar...

Cooper is a former astronaut turned farmer on a dying planet Earth that is affected by a disease called blight sometime in the distant future (technically, the movie starts out in the year 2067). Blight kills almost all the food crops except corn, but soon will also kill corn, meaning that the ...

The mathematical physicist Eric Weinstein was scheduled to speak. He’s famous for, among other things, positing a new “theory of everything” with the goal of turning mainstream physics on its head, the way Einstein once did to Newtonian physics. That will be important to know once ...