Infinity used to be the place where mathematics ran out of road, a hazy horizon rather than a mapped landscape. Now a pair of ...

It’s a staple of popular fiction, but two mathematicians in Australia now say that an age-old maxim is nothing more than bananas. The Infinite Monkey Theorem hypothesizes that, given a typewriter and ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

Scientists have many big questions to tackle about the universe, including how big it actually is. But even the proposed answers aren't straightforward.

The old adage goes that if you give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite amount of time hitting random keys on a typewriter, one of them will eventually type out the complete works of William ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. Everything on Earth, in our solar system, our galaxy, and beyond is contained within ...