SCIENCE

Giant, spinning galaxies go back a whopping 12 billion years | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025

This one prominent galaxy, known as the Big Wheel and located 22 billion light-years away at present, spans ~100,000 light-years…

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Ask Ethan: What does it mean to live in a quantum universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025

By creating two entangled photons from a pre-existing system and separating them by great distances, we can ‘teleport’ information about…

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Just one exo-Earth pixel can reveal continents, oceans, and more | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025

This image of Earth at night highlights the power of how different features are visible as the planet rotates about…

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Ask Ethan: Can we turn Einstein’s equations into Newton’s law? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025

There may never be another Einstein or another Newton, but we can all learn to utilize their equations under the…

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Following the scientific consensus: how to be “the least wrong” | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025

Planet Earth, as viewed by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft as it departed from our location, clearly shows the spheroidal nature of…

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Starts With A Bang podcast #115 — Dwarf galaxies in isolation | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025

However, while most of the dwarf galaxies we know of are found as satellites around larger, more massive galaxies, they…

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Confirmed at last: exoplanets found around nearest single star | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025

This illustration shows Barnard’s star, with the correct size and temperature/color, as orbited by the four recently confirmed exoplanets around…

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Surprising stars reveal second-closest supermassive black hole | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025

This illustration shows how binary stars interact with a supermassive black hole to create a population of hypervelocity stars that…

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Ask Ethan: Does the multiverse explain our fundamental constants? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025

We normally conceive of our Universe as having emerged from a preceding period of cosmic inflation, with our Big Bang…

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The truth about banning “dangerous gain-of-function” research | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025

This illustration shows a coronavirus molecule with a string of RNA inside. Although a SARS-CoV-2 virus might have a genome…

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