It’s a staple of popular fiction, but two mathematicians in Australia now say that an age-old maxim is nothing more than bananas. The Infinite Monkey Theorem hypothesizes that, given a typewriter and ...

Friedmann accepted this new term but pointed out a radical alternative: the universe did not have to be frozen. He argued that Einstein’s static universe was merely a special case and that the cosmos ...

The old adage goes that if you give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite amount of time hitting random keys on a typewriter, one of them will eventually type out the complete works of William ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. Everything on ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...