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Our understanding always will remain incomplete.
Astronomy's roots rest in the very origins of humanity. We have always looked to the skies for answers. We are starting to get them.
With no other galaxies in its vicinity for ~100 million light-years in all directions, it's as isolated and lonely as a galaxy can be.
The problem of the electroweak horizon haunts the standard model of cosmology and beckons us to ask how deep a rethink the model may need.
In polarized times, our shared cellular origin can unite us in solidarity and awe — from the embryonic scale to the grandest cosmic perspective.
From quarks and gluons to giant galaxy clusters, everything that exists in our Universe is determined by what is (and isn't) bound together.
There might be a hard limit to our knowledge of the Universe.
Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can't do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
If the evolution of the Universe is a movie, what happens when we rewind it all the way backward?
In the grand scheme of the cosmic story, a single year isn't all that significant. But over time, the annual changes really add up!
In the latest edition of the Starts With A Bang podcast, we talk with soon-to-be Dr. Arianna Long about galaxies, from birth to today.
Some physicists are besot with the multiverse, but if we can't detect these other universes, how seriously should we take them?
With its very first deep-field view of the Universe now released, the James Webb Space Telescope has shown us our cosmos as never before.
Spiritual experiences can be explained in terms of a highly evolved brain. But they also can be extremely meaningful.
Science and philosophy seem to be separate fields, but philosophical advancements have made the world more accepting of debate and unorthodox ideas.
Though ultimately incorrect, the ancient Greek philosophers blazed a conceptual trail for humankind to understand the nature of reality.
"If we find just one other example of biology out there, then life is not an accident."
We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.
The Universe is grand, awe-inspiring, and greater than we likely imagine. Even astrophysicists get anxious thinking about it, but we cope.
If our Universe were born a little differently, there wouldn't have been any planets, stars, galaxies, or chemically interesting reactions.
Take a peek at the pre-release images used to calibrate and commission JWST's coldest instrument, now ready for full science operations.
The curiosity of children is a national resource. Adults destroy it.
The Big Bang theory is not threatened, but astrophysicists have some explaining to do.
There is no such thing as a void in the Universe.
Whether or not life exists elsewhere in the Universe, we can be assured of one thing: We are the only human beings in the cosmos.
That scary swirling void from which nothing can escape is our perfect universal translation tool.