What Langston Hughes Won’t Take for an Answer

Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.

The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?

A spherical structure nearly one billion light-years wide has been spotted in the nearby Universe, dating all the way back to the Big Bang.

NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.

To answer that question, we may have to figure out when the famed painter started to go bald.