There's no upper limit to how massive galaxies or black holes can be, but the most massive known star is only ~260 solar masses. Here's why.

An extraordinary haberdasher obsessed with buttons, lace collars, and death pioneered modern statistical analysis during the Age of Reason.

In the year 2000, physicists created a list of the ten most important unsolved problems in their field. 25 years later, here's where we are.

Chetan Dube — founder and CEO of Quant — tells Big Think why a pivotal and monumental year for agentic AI has just begun.

"You’ll be able to fly twice as fast as a Boeing or Airbus, and it’ll be like the cost of flying business today."

We see objects whose light only arrives just now. But we see them as they were in the past: when that now-arriving light was first emitted.

Hawking’s refusal to upgrade his communication system preserved a voice that became iconic, not just for its sound, but for the profound identity it conveyed.

Featuring SpaceX's "Mechazilla," a first-of-its-kind spacewalk, and more.

"Okay, dad, but GMOs help feed the world."

A wave of innovation is coursing through the nuclear industry — but ingrained opposition is the biggest roadblock.

Our Universe isn't just expanding, the expansion is accelerating. Instead of dark energy, could a "lumpy" Universe be at fault?

Despite the Sun's high core temperatures, atomic nuclei repel each other too strongly to fuse together. Good thing for quantum physics!

It's simpler, more compact, and reusable from year-to-year in a way that no other calendar is. Here's both how it works and how to use it.

A recent measurement has simultaneously settled an ongoing scientific debate while puzzling scientists.

On larger and larger scales, many of the same structures we see at small ones repeat themselves. Do we live in a fractal Universe?

It's not only the gravity from galaxies in a cluster that reveals dark matter, but the ejected, intracluster stars actually trace it out.

The Malling-Hansen writing ball, with its potential and limitations, redefined Nietzsche’s philosophical and creative expression.

Experts answer 10 big questions about the nightmare scenario that could send us back to the pre-Space Age.

MAPS founder Rick Doblin speaks to Big Think about the FDA’s rejection of MDMA therapy and the future of psychedelic treatments.

“While society's been humming along and enjoying all these advances in agriculture and medicine, in the last 50 or 60 years, ecologists have learned a lot about how nature works. I've codified these into a set of rules called the 'Serengeti Rules.'”

Earth is actively broadcasting and actively searching for intelligent civilizations. But could our technology even detect ourselves?

An evidence-based policy movement is arming the fight with tools and programs that are more effective than ever before.

In 8,000-mile journey, a male humpback ditches Colombia for Tanzania — however, scientists don’t know why he made the trip.

Did the Milky Way form by slowly accreting matter or by devouring its neighboring galaxies? At last, we're uncovering our own history.

Confronting your "absolute stupidity" is a sign you're on course to learning something new and wonderful.

Known as orphaned planets, rogue planets, or planets without parent stars, these "outliers" might be the most common type of planet overall.

When appraising human behavior, people tend to forgo the lessons of psychology in favor of assumption and anecdote.

Our galactic home in the cosmos — the Milky Way — is only one of trillions of galaxies within our Universe. Is one of them truly our "twin?"

The carbon market and offsetting system have created “carbon cowboys” and perpetuated forms of neo-colonialism and other inequities.

The cognitive scientist argues the current AI environment is failing us as consumers and a society. But it’s not too late to change course.