The James Webb Space Telescope was launched on Christmas Day, 2021. In January, it arrived at what is planned to be its permanent, high-orbit location about 930,000 miles from Earth. Quickly, it began ...

Sometimes numbers get in the way of our comprehension. While that might seem like an odd statement coming from an MIT professor, I’m convinced it’s true, especially when it comes to the vast ...

The question of whether the cosmos goes on forever is no longer just a late night thought experiment, it is a live research problem that cuts to the heart of modern physics. Astrophysicists are using ...

In Jorge Luis Borges’s story “The Book of Sand,” a mysterious Bible peddler knocks on the narrator’s door and offers to sell him a sacred book he came by in a small village in India. The book shows ...