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Dr. Tyson explains where we might find aliens, why “dark matter” is a misleading term, and why you can blame physics for your favorite team’s loss.
In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?
In many ways, we are still novices playing with toy models seeking to understand the stars.
Human civilization has always survived periods of change. Will our rapidly evolving technological era be an exception to the rule?
A reader asks whether we have an ethical responsibility to always debate bad beliefs, especially those that come from our elders.
In partisan political times, recognizing the scientific truth is more important than ever. Scientists must be vocal and clear about reality.
Nothing lives forever, at least, not in the physical Universe. But relativity allows us to get closer than ever, from one perspective.
The Universe changes remarkably over time, with some entities surviving and others simply decaying away. Is this cosmic evolution at work?
As we gain new knowledge, our scientific picture of how the Universe works must evolve. This is a feature of the Big Bang, not a bug.
An army of replicators belonging to national laboratories, research universities, and amateur garages is rushing to replicate ambient superconductivity in LK-99.
Scientific surprises, driven by experiment, are often how science advances. But more often than not, they’re just bad science.
Please stop calling our Sun an “average star.” It is philosophically dubious and astronomically incorrect.
The James Webb Space Telescope has chosen 5 targets for its first science release. Here’s what we know on the eve of JWST’s big reveal!
The hunt for the elusive particles continues.
In the early stages of our Solar System, there were three life-friendly planets: Venus, Earth, and Mars. Only Earth thrived. Here’s why.
The evidence that the Universe is expanding is overwhelming. But how? By stretching the existing space, or by creating new space itself?
Einstein hated “spooky action at a distance,” but much to his chagrin, quantum mechanics remains as spooky as ever.
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
Despite all that we’ve learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could “God” be the answer?
Although a great many unidentified sights have been seen in the skies, none have conclusively demonstrated the presence of aliens. So far.
Recent measurements of subatomic particles don’t match predictions stemming from the Standard Model.
To study the origin of the Universe, we could build a constellation of six expensive spacecraft — or we could just use the Moon.
An exclusive interview with physicist Lee Smolin reveals how abandoning Einstein’s dream may have been a terrible mistake.
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.
In the infant Universe, particle physics reigned supreme.
As time goes on, dark energy makes distant galaxies recede from us ever faster in our expanding Universe. But nothing truly disappears.
Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.
“Superhabitable” planets might be real, but Earth is probably as good as it gets.