Immediately after the Big Bang, which occurred around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was dominated by unimaginably high ...

For decades, the Big Bang has been accepted as the definitive explanation for the origin of our universe. But what if ...

The urban astronomy movement #PopScope has set up telescopes on sidewalks that have brought 26,000 people closer to the night ...

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Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the beginning of the universe? The short answer is "no." But the long answer ...

This will be my last column for The Dispatch. I will be moving to a new job after more than 30 years as a university professor. Today’s topic is what interests me the most in the field of cosmology.

International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

But about 500 years ago a few people began to use mathematics and geometry to improve the predictions. To make the predictions better they began to change their ideas of how the sun, moon, stars, and ...

Astronomy: A column about The Beginning, and an end Kenneth Hicks Special to The Columbus Dispatch USA TODAY NETWORK 0:04 ...