The Universe
Life Could be Common Across the Universe, Just Not in Our Region
The building blocks of life can, and did, spontaneously assemble under the right conditions. That's called spontaneous generation, or abiogenesis.…
Weekly Space Hangout: Jan 9, 2019 – Lucianne Walkowicz
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…
What Was Cosmic Inflation? The Quest to Understand the Earliest Universe
The Big Bang was a tremendous theory, but it had a few problems. In 1980 Alan Guth developed the revolutionary…
The Universe
Measuring about 91 billion light years in diameter and being 13.8 billion years old, the Universe encompasses all matter, energy,…
Do I Believe in UFOs?
Everyone always wants to know if I believe in aliens. They really want to know if I believe in UFOs,…
What is the Biggest Star in the Universe?
If our Universe could be likened to a playground, our Sun would be one of the little kids playing in…
Mathematics: The Beautiful Language of the Universe
Let us discuss the very nature of the cosmos. What you may find in this discussion is not what you…
Pale Blue Dot: an Animated Contemplation
Every now and then, someone takes Carl Sagan's wonderful reading of his iconic "Pale Blue Dot" narrative and turns it…
Contest: Win “The Universe: Our Solar System” in Blu-ray
A new giveaway opportunity! This time it is the Blu-ray edition of The Universe: Our Solar System. The Blu-ray edition…
Amazing: Scale of the Universe
[/caption] Via the Bad Astronomer, check out this incredible interactive Flash animation from NewGrounds that provides a scale of the…