"Cosmology" Blogs & Blog Posts

Scientists discovered the Big Ring, a cosmic structure so large it challenges our understanding of the universe.

I was reading Wikipedia's fascinating "Timeline of the Far Future" article, which is full of mind-warping events that will occur in the next 100 years and beyond. You might think things would get boring at the 110 trillion year mark, the "time by...

This week, the hopeful weirdos of the UFO community were handed a gigantic slab of red meat in the form of a hearing in front of Mexico’s congress, where journalist, ufologist, and hoaxer Jaime Maussan produced what he claimed were the mummified bo...

The James Webb Space Telescope turned its sights on a special region in space, where it has revealed some of the youngest galaxies ever observed.

The Big Bang theory has provided the most widely accepted basis of our understanding of the universe since it was first proposed by Georges Lemaitre in 1927. In short, it posits that all the matter in the entire universe was once crammed together in...

Stars made of antimatter? Humans arrived in North America during the last ice age? These are just two of the mind-boggling discoveries of 2021 that Science News claims that "if true, could shake up science." Of course, more evidence is needed for the...

From The New York Times: The moon, lacking an atmosphere to shield it, is constantly under attack. When meteorites bombard its volcanic surface, sodium atoms fly high into orbit. The sun's photons collide with the sodium atoms, effectively pushing...