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

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 ...

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 ...

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 & ...