Have you ever looked up at a clear night sky and felt that gnawing curiosity about whether something’s staring back? The cosmos stretches impossibly far. Billions of galaxies, trillions of stars, and who knows how many planets. It’s hard to believe we’re the only ones here. Humanity has wondered about life beyond Earth for centuries, ...
Have you ever wondered what life might be like if you had taken a different path? That job you didn’t accept, that city you never moved to, or even that decision you made five minutes ago. What if those alternate versions of your life are actually unfolding somewhere else, in a universe stacked right next ...
You grew up with a fairly simple picture of how galaxies form: tiny ripples after the Big Bang slowly pull in matter, stars light up, and over billions of years majestic spirals like the Milky Way take shape. It sounded orderly, almost polite. Then telescopes like Hubble sharpened that picture, and now the James Webb ...
