There’s a problem with how people approach making changes in their lives. Here are a few reasons why I don’t trust them, and why you probably shouldn’t either.

Subscribing to the belief that your celebrity, politician, hobby, or other interest is inherently correct or perfect is a quick way to become dishonest with yourself while forfeiting your critical thinking skills entirely. Here’s what I learned when that happened to me.

Somewhere far beyond Neptune, just on the edge of the sun’s gravitational field, a massive entity known as the Oort Cloud is thought to exist, acting as a sort of spherical barrier around the solar system. But what is the Oort Cloud? And is it really out there?

A little over a year ago, I took the plunge into developing a freelance writing career full-time. It was daunting, to say the least—leaving a steady, secure day job to take a chance on a dream that might flop has its own scares waiting around every corner, not the least of which is financial failure…

Although telescopes afford us incredible glimpses at objects too far and much too faint to see under normal circumstances, even the naked eye can catch a range of interesting phenomena going on right above our heads. Many events, it seems, are difficult to identify for casual gazers.

Todd Bran never cared to have an imagination as active as his younger sister, Susie. But when mysterious crimes begin occurring in his family’s cornfields every Friday night, he suddenly comes face to face with a series of events that defy everything he knows.

Where I live in Virginia, the sun, moon, and planets actually coast through the sky to the south most of the year here, traveling along a line called the ecliptic. It’s this phenomenon which keeps the sun low during the winter…and it also plays a big part in our seasons!

There’s really nothing as magical as sitting for an hour or two under the night sky during a meteor shower. But out of all the meteor showers to spawn every year, none are perhaps as brilliant and active as the Perseid meteor shower…

Everywhere we look, we see our home world throwing in all the correct ingredients to facilitate innumerable types of life across its surface. But just how special is the Earth compared to the rest of outer space? Could there be another Earth somewhere out there? And if there isn’t, do any planets come close?

Despite being the closest planet to our own, we know far less about Venus than our other neighbor, Mars. With NASA’s recent announcement of the DAVINCI+ probe and VERITAS orbiter, we might finally begin to understand the nuances of the Venusian landscape in a better light.