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 ...

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 ...

The brilliant cosmologist and mathematician Sir Hermann Bondi has died at the age of 85. He was best known for developing the "steady-state" theory of the universe together with Thomas Gold and Fred ...

A manuscript that lay unnoticed by scientists for decades has revealed that Albert Einstein once dabbled with an alternative to what we now know as the Big Bang theory, proposing instead that the ...

Even though it’s commonly accepted today, the Big Bang theory was not always the universally accepted scientific explanation for how our universe began. In fact, the term ‘Big Bang’ was coined by a ...