Have you ever felt like you’re stuck inside a pointless, empty, and futile existence where happiness is an illusion and nothingness stretches on forever? Well, good news! You are! At the 2025 National Astronomy Meeting, a team of astronomers presented a convincing hypothesis that Earth is located in a particularly depressing part of the universe.
They theorize that the Earth (and the entire Milky Way) might be inside “a vast cosmic void”, an isolated region where not much happens and nothing ever changes. Or, basically, the interstellar equivalent of Des Moines, Iowa.
