Immediately after the Big Bang, which occurred around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was dominated by unimaginably high temperatures and densities. However, after just a few seconds, it had ...

Various stages of planetary formation have already been observed, but not the beginning. That has now changed, thanks to two ...

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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Speaking at a local restaurant, University of Virginia astronomers share the wonders of the universe, hard science and some ...

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.

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 ...