Cosmology

Meet Eduard Rusu, 27, one of the up-and-coming physicists attending this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Meet Laurence Perreault Levasseur, 24, one of the up-and-coming physicists attending this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

The Venus transit offers a chance for modern-day stargazers to repeat the experiments conducted by expeditions around the world in the 18th and 19th centuries--with a modern twist

Musser, who covers space for SA, will help us prepare to watch Tuesday's transit and explain the science behind this rare astronomical event

Exploding white dwarf stars and an unexpected abundance of iron explain the chemistry of a unique star cluster

Amateur astronomer Jeremiah Horrox was the only person in England, and possibly the entire world, convinced that a Venus solar transit would occur in 1639, an event that Johannes Kepler himself had failed to predict

Black hole jets had previously been detected in other galaxies, but not in ours

The split will eventually see South Africa receiving the majority of the project's 3,000 dishes, and Australia will host the low-frequency radio antennas

A recent report from Russia's space agency sheds light on a string of recent failures

Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American

An update by the author of A Universe from Nothing on his thoughts, as a theoretical physicist, about the value of the discipline of philosophy