By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer ...

As I finished my PhD in 1992, the universe was full of mystery – we didn’t even know exactly what it is made of. One could ...

That might be what astronomers felt when they discovered an evolved galaxy similar to the Milky Way, but lighting up space when the universe was merely 700 million years old. Given that most ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has presented data that directly challenges our current ...

This is a list of people who have made noteworthy contributions to cosmology (the study of the history and large-scale structure of the universe) and their cosmological achievements. Alexander ...

One could argue that cosmologists had made little progress in our understanding of these basic facts since the discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the afterglow of the Big Bang ...

Highly speculative ideas rarely test out. That’s why CAS is something of a scientific unicorn—a highly speculative idea, the ...

Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is perhaps understandable that we haven't yet cracked all its secrets. But ...