The idea that there was a definite beginning to the universe as we know it, at a time we can calculate, is well established in the public imagination. It may therefore come as a shock to be reminded ...

Everybody enjoys a good mystery. And boy, right now there’s a doozie of a mystery in cosmology. Cosmology is the “big picture” of astronomy. Cosmology attempts to understand the creation on the ...

The Big Bang, which today is held as the beginning of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator, but requires it. Evolution in nature is not at odds with the notion of ...

In 2016, scientists documented the existence of gravitational waves in the universe, a phenomenon Einstein postulated 100 years before. With this discovery, they said, they could look back to the ...

In 1946, anthropologist Loren Eiseley exposed the hypocrisy of scientists who dismissed the Biblical story of creation as mythical and unprovable and then proceeded to replace the poetic metaphor with ...

What is the Big Bang? Simply put, it’s our modern understanding of the history and evolution of the universe. It is not, however, a theory of the creation of our cosmos, because we do not understand ...

The mysteries surrounding the origins of the universe have long intrigued scientists and philosophers alike. New research, ...

Editor’s note: What follows is Roger Sanders’ response to Russell Hairston’s series about reconciling science and theology. In Mr. Hairston’s second article in his five-part series, he suggests that ...

The discovery comes as a surprise to scientists, as they believed the formation of such well-organized spiral galaxies took ...

The Saint Benedict Institute will host physicist Dr. Stephen Barr, who is president of the Society of Catholic Scientists and retired from the University of Delaware faculty, for a talk titled “The ...

In 2016 scientists documented the existence of gravitational waves in the universe, a phenomenon Einstein postulated 100 years before. With this discovery, they said, they could look back to the ...