The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In October, a Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. The $5 ...

Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major ...

Einstein's 1917 paper, "Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity," applied general relativity to the universe as a whole, establishing a firmer basis for cosmology. To create a ...

The Euclid mission, which will measure how the dark universe affects the geometry of the cosmos, is named after the 'father of geometry.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

athematics is, at its core, an art. Like painters, musicians or writers, mathematicians create and explore new worlds. They ...