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Cosmic Transmissions (Spring, 2022)
World + People
Outer Space

Cosmic Transmissions (Spring, 2022)

Our science editor delivers news from Earth and space, including the James Webb Space Telescope, the sun’s Nemesis, and the longest thunderbolt ever recorded.
Łukasz Kaniewski
Cosmic Transmissions (Autumn, 2021)
World + People
Outer Space

Cosmic Transmissions (Autumn, 2021)

Our science editor delivers news from Earth and space, including cosmic holograms, spraying aerosols into the atmosphere, and tardigrades on the moon.
Łukasz Kaniewski
Shrunken Giants, Swelling Dwarfs
World + People
Outer Space

Shrunken Giants, Swelling Dwarfs

The life cycle of stars is truly spectacular, often involving the creation of immense mass and the unimaginable movement of energy – at least from our earthly perspective.
Piotr Stankiewicz
Dark Matters of the Universe
World + People
Outer Space, Science

Dark Matters of the Universe

Much of the physical world is invisible to us – none more so than the concepts of dark companions, dark matter and dark energy in astronomy.
Piotr Stankiewicz
Baby Earth, Infant Sun
World + People
Science

Baby Earth, Infant Sun

What analogies and metaphors might be useful in describing the processes of planets and stars in our solar system?
Łukasz Lamża
There Will Be Life
World + People
Outer Space

There Will Be Life

Astrobiologist Janusz Pętkowski talks about whether extra-terrestrial life might exist on the planet Venus.
Piotr Stankiewicz
The Sadness of the Galaxies
World + People
Outer Space

The Sadness of the Galaxies

When we look up into the sky, towards the stars and beyond – to the entire universe itself – it is sometimes hard not to be overcome with a sense existential loneliness.
Grzegorz Uzdański
The Whole-Planet View
Soul + Body, World + People
Wellbeing, Science

The Whole-Planet View

Psychedelics offer a sense of expansive connectedness, just like astronauts have felt looking back to Earth from space.
Rosalind Watts, Sam Gandy, Alex Evans
Portraits of a Planet
World + People
Outer Space

Portraits of a Planet

Paradoxically, it was only after we flew into space that we discovered the Earth – as these three photos of our planet illustrate.
Piotr Stankiewicz
Earth Alienation
World + People
Outer Space

Earth Alienation

In early 2020, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its first human passengers into space. What might an essay written by Hannah Arendt in the 1960s tell us about the commercialization of outer space?
Shoaib Shafi