Is that what brought you to MIT from Midland, Michigan? When I went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I thought I would become an astronaut. So I started out majoring in aeronautical engi...

Back in the mid 1990s, I was primarily an onlooker at Nasa/Goddard when John Cromwell Mather was analysing the data of COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) and planning his next great mission — nam...

It was in the late fifties, still at school, we were all very excited about the new discoveries of the structure of the universe. Fred Hoyle, Dennis Sciama, Herman Bondi, Jayant Narlikar, and others a...

I have known Roger Penrose closely for quite some time. He has been visiting Calcutta for more than 25 years. His involvement with Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity is intense; his ...

The year was 2019 — a time before protests and lockdowns — and I was leaving sunny Los Angeles, US, for the icy desert of Antarctica to set up a telescope that would observe light from the...

As Christmas approaches, would-be chefs and hosts, including apparently my editors, are perfecting their techniques for making the all-important gravy for the turkey and potatoes.I have my moments as ...

Astronomers have discovered 83 quasars powered by supermassive black holes 13 billion light-years away from the Earth, from a time when the universe was less than 10 per cent of its present age.'It is...

On March 7, with great fanfare, officials from the US National Science Foundation and UK Research and Innovation announced a $30 million project to double the sensitivity of the antennas for the Laser...