astrophysics
21/05/2022 - 17:17
If we want to know the answers to any question we can ask, including about the extent, contents, and age of the Universe, we have two... →
31/08/2021 - 19:22
In his new book, “Flashes of Creation,” Paul Halpern chronicles the rise of Gamow and Hoyle into leaders of mostly opposing views of... →
14/06/2021 - 12:56
What happened before time began?
If everything that happens can be attributed to a cause, what caused the universe? To deal with the... →
14/03/2018 - 12:24
Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford on 8 January 1942. His father, a research biologist, had moved with his mother from London to... →
04/03/2018 - 11:58
The movement of galaxies through space could not be explained by particles and forces that we can observe and understand. The theory now is... →
08/12/2016 - 12:34
As a research astrophysicist, I can say without exaggeration that a day never goes by when I am not impressed by the amazing explanatory... →
06/12/2016 - 12:56
Atmospheric life isn’t just for the birds. For decades, biologists have known about microbes that drift in the winds high above Earth’s... →
01/11/2015 - 14:13
That’s because dark matter is not made out of the same material as ordinary matter—atoms or familiar elementary particles, whose... →
05/02/2014 - 13:57
And that cooler gas has much more mass than scientists previously estimated, Jessica Werk reported Jan. 7. She presented her new findings... →