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There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next ...more

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The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

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On Friday the 13th of April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup, will fly so close to Earth, that it wil...more

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Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

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People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noa...more

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Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.

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My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

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I'd ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I'd ask why 99% of all species there ever were are n...more

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The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions of spa...more

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When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

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People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the univ...more

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Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?

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The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away, and at a time wh...more

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We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.

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The Universe was opaque until 380.000 years after the Big Bang.