WUWM astronomy contributor Jean Creighton discusses cosmology ahead of "Birth of the Universe" at UWM's Manfred Olson ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

The plot represents the new model with the x-axis and the y-axis showing the minimum sizes of collapsing and expanding regions that can impact cosmological measurements. The contours are independent ...

Papst Benedikt XVI. uber "Schöpfung und Evolution" / Christoph Schönborn -- The reflections of Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI on evolution / Christoph Schönborn -- From a simple big bang to our ...

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have proposed a key indicator that may reveal the emergence of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by analyzing ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

TL;DR: The James Webb Space Telescope has collected extensive data enabling scientists to publish the largest and most detailed map of the universe, covering nearly the entire span of cosmic history.

On transmuting Boyle's law to Darwin's revolution / Stephen Jay Gould -- The evolution of cellular development / Lewis Wolpert -- The evolution of guns and germs / Jared Diamond -- The evolution of ...