Starts With A Bang
Starts With A Bang, Big ThinkExplore the cosmos with astrophysicist and author Dr. Ethan Siegel! From the origin of everything to the fate of the universe, Ethan and Big Think are here to answer your biggest questions.
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The discovery of an atmosphere on a tiny Kuiper belt world
This visualization shows an illustration of Kuiper belt object 2002 XV93, with an atmosphere around it that was measured during the stellar occultation of a background star. Observations from Kiso observatory (green line) and Fukushima (mag...
The black hole misconception
with Ethan Siegel • May 9, 2026
Greetings readers,
There are multiple sides to every story, although the merits of each side are rarely equal. Last week, I made the case for why scientists were correct to demote Pluto from it...
A new experiment deepens the physics mystery over “big G”
The torsion balance used to measure the gravitational constant, G, at NIST during the 2010s and 2020s, as principal investigator Stephan Schlamminger (left) and scientist Vincent Lee (right) examine and work on it. Credit: R. Eskalis/NIST...
The Pluto debate
with Ethan Siegel • May 2, 2026
Greetings readers,
Well, we’ve done it: We’ve made it through the first four months of the year, and it’s officially May. April sure was an exciting month for science: We had the Artemis II mis...
The particles in the early Universe painted a different picture
This illustration of the Standard Model shows the full spectrum of the particles and antiparticles that are known to make up our modern Universe: six quarks and antiquarks, six leptons and antileptons, the W+, W-, and Z bosons, plus the (ei...
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