Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...
Our universe does host life, but another one might be even better suited for life. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read ...
You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...
When you look up at the night sky, it seems deep black with bright stars scattered across it. That familiar view leads many ...
They shaped the Universe, yet the first stars ever born continue to evade the searches of astronomers like Dr Emma Chapman ...
The Universe may not have started with the Big Bang, but instead “bounced” out of a massive black hole formed within a larger “parent” universe, according to a new scientific paper. Professor Enrique ...
The fate of the cosmos may be a bit different than previously expected. For years, scientists have talked about how the universe is always expanding — constantly moving outward, never stopping.
Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...
The end of the universe has always felt like a distant abstraction. But new calculations suggest that our original timeline might have been wildly optimistic. According to a team of Dutch scientists, ...
Is there a middle ground between “Young Earth” creationism and “There can be no gods” atheism? Yes, says Andy Fletcher, founder and president of Life, the Universe and Everything, a scientific ...
This December, the SciFri Book Club will read The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion by Sean M. Carroll. This New York Times bestseller transforms intimidating physics equations ...