An ambitious project to map the density of every object in the cosmos has yielded a few surprises, and may help lead to new ...

Do you remember the first time you truly discovered the universe? When I was a teenager, many moons ago, I bought my first telescope, a Celestron 8. I remember excitedly unboxing it the day it arrived ...

It was the Greek mathematician Archimedes who said “Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth.” The quote, a reference to the power of the lever, is an example of humanity’s fascination with ...

Some 13.8bn years ago, the universe came into existence in the Big Bang. Its first moments were a period of pure energy with intense, possibly infinite, heat and density. As the universe expanded, it ...