Dark star crashes: the computer simulation of two merging neutron stars (left) blended with an image of heavy-ion collisions at CERN to highlight the connection of astrophysics with nuclear physics.

We've got plenty of observations of galaxy-sized magnetic fields, and good models for how they form. Now, a lab in France has been able to bridge the two with real data generated using a high-powered ...

I met Tim Eastman virtually, through a mutual friend, at the time I began my book project. Eastman is a PhD plasma physicist, a consultant, and a Wyle Deputy Group Manager for science support at the ...

[The] Big Bang hypothesis … is an irrational process that cannot be described in scientific terms … [nor] challenged by an appeal to observation. ~ Fred Hoyle (1949) We are at the cusp of becoming a ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The shock waves are still reverberating from ...

Eric Lerner comments that virtually all financial and experimental resources in cosmology are devoted to big bang studies (22 May, p 20). I would interested to know if the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Asteroid 2012 DA14, a 130,000 metric ton chuck of rock, will pass within 17,200 miles of the Earth on February 15th. This is a relatively close encounter for such a large chunk of rock, given the ...