Since humanity's earliest days, people have looked up at the stars, using science, art, religion, philosophy, mathematics, and any other tool at their disposal to better understand the complicated and ...

Albert Einstein’s work in physics often overshadows the depth of his reflections on human nature, compassion, and our place in the world. Today’s highlighted quote comes from a letter he wrote in 1950 ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This ...

The universe's first magnetic fields may have been much weaker than we first imagined — and were roughly equivalent to the strength of the magnetic activity within the human brain, according to a new ...

My interest in cosmology started in 1989 when in Manchester I bought my first hardbound book, *A Brief History of Time* by Stephen Hawking, and since then there was no looking back. From the Hubble ...

How the same region of the Universe would look in terms of the amount of stars for different values of the dark energy density. Clockwise, from top left, no dark energy, same dark energy density as in ...