A blazar is an extraordinarily bright object with a supermassive black hole at its core. Some of the matter falling into the ...

I met Tim Eastman virtually, through a mutual friend, at the time I began my book project. Eastman is a PhD plasma physicist, a consultant, and a Wyle Deputy Group Manager for science support at the ...

[The] Big Bang hypothesis … is an irrational process that cannot be described in scientific terms … [nor] challenged by an appeal to observation. ~ Fred Hoyle (1949) We are at the cusp of becoming a ...

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 ...

Asteroid 2012 DA14, a 130,000 metric ton chuck of rock, will pass within 17,200 miles of the Earth on February 15th. This is a relatively close encounter for such a large chunk of rock, given the ...

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 ...

When physicist Timothy Horbury says “everything we’ve seen [from the Voyager probe] is not what we expected to see”, he appears to be referring to standard cosmological models and their predictions ...

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 ...