Read moreThe human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.
Read moreI was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.
Read moreObservations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.
Read moreAlthough almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.
Read moreThe universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.