A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

A study says the Ain Samiya goblet, found in 1970, depicts a moment of cosmic creation, challenging previous scholarly interpretations. It's the oldest-known cup of its kind.

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), those years amount to nearly 20—and now the ...

Let's rewind the clock back…oh, I don't know, let's say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his general theory of relativity. It was a masterpiece, giving us our modern-day ...

"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure of the universe." Astronomers have discovered that the solar system may be ...

In a special three-part series, Sr. Joan Chittister interviews feminist theologian Elizabeth Johnson about her latest book, "Come, Have Breakfast: Meditations on God and the Earth" (Orbis, 2024). In ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. To study the origins of our universe is to struggle with profound chicken-or-egg questions. We know the Big Bang happened. Cosmologists can see its afterglow in ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

Confucian cosmology was never about superstition. Its real power lay in de-centering authority – binding rulers to a higher standard they couldn’t control. The statue at Fan Zhongyan’s tomb site in ...

Cosmology of Kyoto is a first-person horror exploration game where players navigate a deeply haunted yet surprisingly educational terrain. Originally released in 1993, Cosmology of Kyoto and its ...

The Gruber Foundation today recognized four scientists who have made significant contributions to the fields of cosmology, genetics, and neuroscience. Recipients of the Gruber International Prize ...