“Superhabitable” planets might be real, but Earth is probably as good as it gets.
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In the early stages of our Solar System, there were three life-friendly planets: Venus, Earth, and Mars. Only Earth thrived. Here’s why.
Even with only 12.5 hours of exposure time, James Webb’s first deep-field image taught us lessons we’ve never realized before.
Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
From ancient Greek cosmology to today’s mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, explore the relentless quest to understand the Universe’s invisible forces.
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
A new paper combines two concepts from the edges of astrophysics: Dyson Spheres and black holes. A Type III civilization could combine them.
The standard model of cosmology has a big new problem: Some galaxies seem to be too old.
If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.
Scientific surprises, driven by experiment, are often how science advances. But more often than not, they’re just bad science.
If you want a medication to kick in faster, lean right.
A new artificial intelligence method removes the effect of gravity on cosmic images, showing the real shapes of distant galaxies.
With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.
More than any other of Einstein’s equations, E = mc² is the most recognizable to people. But what does it all mean?
Despite the enormous mass of the Earth, simply depleting our groundwater is changing our axial tilt. Simple Newtonian physics explains why.
The evidence that the Universe is expanding is overwhelming. But how? By stretching the existing space, or by creating new space itself?
It may be time for a cosmological paradigm shift.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
The Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that’s true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?
If you don’t mourn in North Korea, you risk being executed.
“The pulsar sort of consumes the thing that recycled it, just as the spider eats its mate.”
In the infant Universe, particle physics reigned supreme.
The false assumption the Multiverse relies on is that something which exists requires an explanation.
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin’s work: 40 years later.
Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn’t have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.
Although a great many unidentified sights have been seen in the skies, none have conclusively demonstrated the presence of aliens. So far.
Centuries ago, the plague forced people into quarantine for years. Isaac Newton and Galileo used the time to revolutionize the world.
Since dark matter eludes detection, the mission will target sources of light that are sensitive to it.
For thousands of years, we puzzled at how far away the Moon was. Today we know its distance, at any time, to within millimeters.