“Where did the universe come from?” The “big bang” theory has become the dominant answer to that question. But what happened before the big bang?

Is science opening the way to a new form of human spirituality that will transcend ancient ideas of a supernatural creator? Astronomer Nahum Arav seems to think so.

One physicist not on the big bang bandwagon is Geoffrey Burbidge. Now in his 80s, he has argued against the big bang for 50 years.

The most confounding question that arises from the big bang theory is a simple one: If the big bang is the origin of the universe, what happened before?

Eric J. Lerner has written and done extensive research in the field of cosmology. It is on this subject that Vision recently interviewed him.

Hubble became known as the man who made the smartest man in the world change his mind about the structure of the universe.

A successful space shuttle mission such as the recent Endeavor journey is a triumph of human ingenuity and inventiveness over the harsh elements of extraterrestrial travel.

Whatever his intentions and sources were, Edgar Allan Poe would probably be surprised by how well his ideas are borne out in modern cosmology’s story of the universe.

Despite the wealth of knowledge gained both during the International Geophysical Year and since, too many of us may still take the Earth for granted.

The J. Craig Venter Institute announces that researchers there have succeeded in synthetically recreating the genome of the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium.