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 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 ...

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 ...