In the history of science few developments have been more important than the advent of the new heliocentric cosmology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Whereas most of the ancient Greeks ...

Anaxagoras, a visionary Greek philosopher, foresaw concepts of expanding universe and multiple worlds centuries before modern ...

Over the past decade, cosmology has been embroiled in a growing ... fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) — an ancient snapshot of the universe's first light contained within ...