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Interstellar visitors are rare enough that each one rewrites the playbook for how scientists study the space between stars. On July 1, 2025, the ATLAS survey spotted a new object, first tagged as ...

Ultimately, the gel-first hypothesis does not claim to provide a definitive answer to the origin of life. Rather, it offers a conceptual framework—one that integrates soft-matter physics, systems ...

Through nine questions, from the merely intriguing to the existential and utterly bonkers, this special feature confronts the staggering vastness of the cosmos and our place in it.