We've got plenty of observations of galaxy-sized magnetic fields, and good models for how they form. Now, a lab in France has been able to bridge the two with real data generated using a high-powered ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a technique that brings scientists a big step closer to unlocking the secrets of the most abundant form of matter in the universe. University of British Columbia researchers ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. This image represents the evolution of the Universe, starting with the ...

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 ...