Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today.

Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion of the universe and giving birth to all the energy and all the matter we know today. I know that sounds crazy, but there’s strong observational evidence to support the Big Bang theory. And it includes the amount of helium in the cosmos and the glow of radio waves left over from the explosion.

Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.

I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.

There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.

I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.

I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.