NASA has revealed it’s working on a plan called “The Big Bang” that it hopes will extend the working lives of the Voyager probes. A few details about the plan appear in an April 17 NASA announcement which revealed that during a planned roll maneuver on February 27,

An exploration of the Big Bang theory and how people interpret its meaning, combining scientific understanding with philosophical reflection.

It is due to the English astronomer that we know we are all stardust. Even so, he is remembered more for what he rejected than for what he discovered

We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out — and we have only just begun.” Andrew West’s journey into astronomy at Tufts has been driven by this ceaseless curiosity,

Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae. But as the tape rewinds, everything begins to shrink ...

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; another, time. Thirdly, it began the conditions and processes that eventually resulted in us humans, who can sit here and wonder ...