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Obviously, the gas giants all top this list. But the fall-off is rapid after that, and the final two spots in the top 10 are trulyContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Human beings only see the Universe now: 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang. What would the earliest life, anywhere, have seen instead?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

When people choose the greatest scientist of all, Newton and Einstein always come up. Here's why they should pick Johannes Kepler instead.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Scientists are livid over the OSTP director's official report to the President. Will it lead to a new golden age for US science, or end it?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

200 years ago, we hardly knew anything about our Universe on cosmic scales. Today, there's so much that we know. Here's how we arrived.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Early on, the entire Universe was ionized. Without the forbidden two-photon transition, it would have remained that way for far too long.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Our Universe has a positive, non-zero value to the energy within empty space. Can we potentially save ourselves by considering vacuumContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

It's not a gambit. It's not fraud. It's not driven by opinion, prejudice, or bias. It's not unchallengeable. And it's more than factsContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Although the Geminids have rivaled the Perseids recently, in 2026, the Perseids should win at their peak. Here's why, plus how to see them.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

We've never witnessed a system of binary stars both go supernova before. A once-hidden source of gamma rays just revealed the first one.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »