Space

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, delivered the public lecture “The End of Spacetime” at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA, on June 19.

Watch Arkani-Hamed discuss the union of quantum mechanics and...

Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, has been honored with the Robert Heinlein Memorial Award presented by the National Space Society. The award honors the work he has done as a ground-breaking physicist and...

“The Noah’s Ark Egg is a way of making space colonies highly cost-effective. They’re very cheap, and also very powerful. They’re using miniaturization to spread life in the universe, not just for exploring," said Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in...

IAS Trustee Sir Martin Rees spoke with Scientific American to discuss threats to Earth and humanity, challenges facing the scientific community, Martian communities and utopian societies, and more.

Albert Einstein said that the “most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.” He was right to be astonished. Human brains evolved to be adaptable, but our underlying neural architecture has barely changed since our...

Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Science, looks at recent books on space travel and visions of life beyond Earth in a review for the New York Review of Books:

Almost all the current discussion of life in the universe...

The Gaia spacecraft, which was launched in late 2013 by the European Space Agency, is on a mission to chart the heavens in unprecedented detail. By the end of its five-year-long run it will pinpoint the positions of one billion stars in the sky with...

A recently discovered ultra-faint dwarf galaxy is sending astronomers clues about the makeup of dark matter in the neighborhood of the Milky Way. It is one more clue that a type of stellar object called massive compact halo objects (MACHOs) are...

Researchers, including Roman Rafikov, Member in the School of Natural Sciences, discuss how "hot Jupiters," "superpuffs," and exoplanets are making us rethink how planetary systems come together. Read more from Science http://ow.ly/hPYg302Rfxg.

Over 20 years ago, Frank Wilczek asked Richard Feynman one of the most disturbing questions in physics: Why doesn't empty space weigh anything?