As per the title, simple question: what are the most up-to-date books on cosmology? Obviously I mean for the layman, not the PhD research student! I haven't read a good one in quite a while, ie many ...

MAN AND His UNIVERSE—John Langdon-Davies—Harper ($5). Author Langdon-Davies’ thesis: that the religious views of the man-in-the-street are largely formed by the “over-belief” (contemporary scientific ...

The problem with studying the universe around us is that it is simply too big. The stars overhead remain too far away to interact with directly, so we are relegated to testing our theories on the ...

In “Night Watch,” Kevin Young riffs on Dante’s “Inferno” and gives voice to silenced figures from the nation’s past.

A cosmic mystery that is one of the most significant open questions in physics may finally have been solved. The two main methods of measuring the universe’s rate of expansion have long been in ...

Despite a career spanning six decades, Jaramillo’s rigorous, original work has largely been overlooked by museums and markets — until now. Virginia Jaramillo in her studio on Spring Street, New York ...

On Christmas morning of 2021, astronomers watched their new, greatest tool successfully blast off into space. Now the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is fully deployed and has arrived at its ...