The inherent human tendency, when confronted with anything that defies immediate explanation—a flash of green, an impossible streak across a pre-dawn sky—is to assign it cosmic significance.
By Tom Beckwith ·
The spectacle of the cosmos—the meteors, the planetary parades, the great eclipses—is a brutal reminder that some things simply are. They follow natural laws.
By Bram de Vries ·
One reads the breathless accounts—the articles from people.com, the seasonal pronouncements from today.com—and one is struck by a profound, almost dangerous enthusiasm for cosmic cycles.
By Adele Rutherford ·
The cosmos, it seems, has decided to throw us an amateur night this week.
By Grant Colby ·