Cosmology is the one field in which researchers can—literally—witness the past. The cosmic background radiation, ancient light streaming toward us since the Big Bang, provides a pristine window onto the birth and evolution of the universe.

Astronaut Woody Hoburg and leading planetary scientists join Brian Greene to explore ambitious new missions set to propel humanity deeper into space and sharpen our quest to discover life beyond …

Our age is marked by the proliferation of information, and yet we can’t agree. Science is supposed to be neutral, and yet it has generated some of the deepest societal …

Step into the mind of Nobel laureate Alain Aspect, one of the pioneers who turned quantum weirdness into experimental reality. In this conversation with Brian Greene, Aspect retraces the century-long …

Congratulations to Shep Doeleman and the Event Horizon Telescope team, winners of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics! At the 2019 World Science Festival, Shep presented the methods used …

What are scientists looking for when searching for alien life? A lot, it turns out: the search for extraterrestrials requires the help from astronomers, planetary scientists, chemists, computer scientists, and geneticists, just to name a few. But are we barking up the wrong carbon-based tree?