The mid-20th century featured a substantial scientific and public debate between the Big Bang theory and the Steady State model, with the former proposing a universe with a definitive beginning and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. Astrophysicist Fred Hoyle coined the term in 1949 as a way to illustrate the ...

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Looking back from what we know now, the idea of a steady state universe seems like a model that doesn’t fit with our understanding of cosmology. As I said, hindsight is ...

A once-hidden Einstein manuscript is rattling the scientific community. While it’s practically just a scrap in the tome of Einstein’s calculations, the paper shows that Einstein may have supported the ...

DALLAS — Back in the old days, like half a century ago, many astronomers and physicists thought they understood the universe, more or less. It looked pretty much the same everywhere, so it probably ...

A British scientist reported last week about an event that might seem unreportable: the birth of the universe. Cambridge University Radio Astronomer Martin Ryle performed the feat by taking a look at ...

In science, you don't have to get everything right in order to get the most incredible things correct. Sometimes good ideas emerge from a failed paradigm. An excellent example of both is the ...