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The observable Universe is 92 billion light-years in diameter. These pictures put just how large that is in perspective.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

We strongly suspect we aren't alone in the Universe, but so far, we haven't found anyone. What determines when we'll finally make contact?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Most time travel stories involve changing the past to create a better future. Donnie Darko subverts that expectation, and a whole lot more.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Predicted back in the 1960s, 2012's discovery of the Higgs boson completed the Standard Model. But the biggest Higgs puzzle still persists.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Although many of Einstein's papers revolutionized physics, there's one Einsteinian advance, generally, that towers over all the rest.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Millisecond pulsars are the Universe's most accurate natural clocks. A pulse change, thought rare, just occurred twice in the closest one.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

From a primordial soup of particles, atoms eventually emerged. What happened to make it so, and could things have worked out any other way?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

All matter particles can act as waves, and massless light waves show particle-like behavior. Can gravitational waves also be particle-like?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

The matter that creates black holes won't be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

In 1982, an experiment showed unprecedented evidence for exotic matter: magnetic monopoles. But without reproducibility, it didn't hold up.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »