PICADOR; 209 PAGES; $23 . The freakishly gifted Berkeley writer Carter Scholz's first short-story collection, "The Amount to Carry," ends too soon. If only it didn't begin the same way. Released in ...

The universe stretches endlessly in all directions, harboring mysteries that have puzzled humanity since we first gazed up at the stars. Despite centuries of scientific breakthroughs, from Newton’s ...

Kids ask a big question, and scientists use the James Webb Telescope to explore it. How big is space? It’s a question many kids ask, and one scientists are still exploring. In this episode of Space ...

Answers to some of cosmology's most pressing questions are obscured by simple dust. It concerns the Cosmic Noon, a period of time that began around 2 billion years after the Big Bang, when nearly all ...

Clusters of galaxies are the largest structures in the Universe that are held together by gravity. Because of their immense size and mass, galaxy clusters are extremely useful as tools to probe a ...

Did the big bang really happen? -- Is space infinite? -- When did time begin? -- How will the universe end? -- What is the universe made of? -- Where did the galaxies come from? -- What is nothingness ...