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“They do not see what lies ahead, when Sun has faded and Moon is dead.”  -J.R.R. Tolkien Someday, the Sun will expand, engulfing Mercury and Venus, and then some. Will we survive?

October 29, 2017 What better way to say farewell than with a slew of costume pictures from this years (coming) Halloween? Happy Halloween 2017! From Ethan Siegel and Starts With A Bang. Keep looking to the Universe. And well have a lifetime of wonderful things to still explore. Goodbye, Scienceblogs,… October 28, 2017 "Delay is the deadliest form of denial." -C. Northcote Parkinson Every massless particle and wave travels at the speed of light when it moves through a vacuum. Over a distan...

Next week, I’ll be at two days of the official Star Trek convention in Las Vegas, on August 3rd and 4th, and the full schedule is now online! While the Perseids are coming up, followed by the total solar eclipse, theres still a whole lot to do before then. Youve had a lot to think about and a lot to say, so lets get right into our comments of the week! The particle tracks emanating from a high energy collision at the LHC in 2014. Although these collisions are plentiful and incredibly ene...

  Theres so much more thats on its way, including our second podcast coming next week, an upcoming holiday giveaway for the lucky submissions chosen for Ask Ethan, and some more spectacular articles about how the Universe came to be, and how we know it. (Oh, and weve also almost unlocked the next Patreon reward, for real! Lets make it happen before 2015 is out!) Now, join me as we jump in to our Comments of the Week! From Dean on the "UFO" seen from the ISS: "As I explain, however, this is si...