Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...
If you wave your hand in front of your face, you won’t notice anything particularly interesting. Perhaps a gentle waft of air against your cheek – that’s about it. No epiphany. No major sign that ...
The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...
One of the most awkward parts of writing a book is that, eventually, authors have to ask people for “blurbs” – the endorsements that you see on the cover of a book, encouraging you to buy it. I am now ...
Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...
Space is the final frontier, right? That's what science fiction loves to say, and there's a lot of whimsy and wonder behind such a statement. But that's for a fairly good reason. After all, it's not a ...
Astronomers explore an area of space packed with stars—and mysteries The full view of the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals a 50 light-years-wide portion of ...
As global warming continues and space technology improves, there is more and more talk about the growing possibility of a sci-fi future in which humans become a multiplanetary species. Specifically, ...
All around the Universe, clouds of gas and dust swirl between stars, hiding tiny, reactive molecules that could hold answers to some of life’s biggest questions. Among them are strange compounds ...