Stories by Adam Frank

Adam Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester who blogs at 13.8 at BigThink.com and the author, most recently, of Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth. Follow Adam Frank on Twitter @AdamFrank4

Planetary Science

Massive Machines Are Bringing Giant Exoplanets Down to Earth

Scientists are using football-field-sized lasers, warehouse-sized electromagnets and other immense facilities to reveal the deep secrets of planetary interiors

July 21, 2021 — Adam Frank

The Sciences

Does Cosmology Matter?

Every month or so it seems like another eminent physicist publishes a new book claiming to go beyond or "before" the Big Bang. Roger Penrose, Brian Green and Stephan Hawking have all gotten into the game putting their stamp on the “Death of the Big Bang”.Cosmology, it would seem, is at a precipice and we appear to be living at the twilight of Big Bang as a theory of the Universe’s origin...

October 21, 2011 — Adam Frank