Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. This image represents the evolution of the Universe, starting with the ...

Decades after its launch, NASA’s Voyager spacecraft has made a startling discovery at the edge of our solar system. The probe ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The shock waves are still reverberating from ...

Eric Lerner comments that virtually all financial and experimental resources in cosmology are devoted to big bang studies (22 May, p 20). I would interested to know if the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma – the first matter ever to be present - during the first microsecond of Big Bang. Their findings ...

The history of physics is filled with great ideas that you've heard of, like the Standard Model, the Big Bang, General Relativity, and so on. But it's also filled with brilliant ideas that you ...

Ancient alien life might have been incubating on strange exoplanets just 15 million years after the birth of the universe. Although nothing more complex than microbes could have existed back then, the ...

Numerical simulation of the neutron stars merging to form a black hole, with their accretion disks interacting to produce electromagnetic waves. Credit: L. Rezolla (AEI) & M. Koppitz (AEI & ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The history of physics is filled with great ideas that you've heard of, ...