This article originally appeared on Undark. The phrase Pillars of Creation became popular in 1995 when it was used to describe a striking deep space photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The ...

This December, the SciFri Book Club will read The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion by Sean M. Carroll. This New York Times bestseller transforms intimidating physics equations ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

His latest book, Discordance, fits into the class of conventional popular cosmology, in so far that it is an account of how our present understanding of the Universe has emerged. But it is also, with ...

Carlin is a contributor for TIME. In Kimberly King Parsons’ debut novel, We Were the Universe, indescribable grief knocks a suburban Texas mother out of orbit. Four years after losing her little ...

Humanity is lucky to reside on a planet circling a star with plentiful radiation, illuminating the world around us in reflected wavelengths of light. These wavelengths—a portion of which we experience ...