Cosmology is the study of the origin, structure and evolution of the universe. The origins of cosmology predate the human written record. The earliest civilizations constructed elaborate myths and folk tales to explain the wanderings of the Sun, Moon,...

Cosmology is the study of the origin, structure and evolution of the universe. The origins of cosmology predate the human written record. The earliest civilizations constructed elaborate myths and folk tales to explain the wanderings of the Sun, Moon...

Cosmology comes from the Greek word kosmos which, according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary means ‘the world or universe as an ordered system’ or ‘order, harmony, a harmonious system’. Cosmology then, means the theory...

(the description of the universe and its history) has evolved in Indian mythology in several versions which share a certain general structure. Thus our own universe is described as egg-shaped and as being only one among many (which reminds one of...

Cosmology, from the Greek: κοσμολογία (cosmologia, κόσμος (cosmos) order + λογος (logos) word, reason, plan) is the quantitative (usually mathematical) study of the Universe in its totality, and by extension, humanity's place in it....

Scientists need help sorting through an unusual digital photo album: pictures of about 1 million galaxies.They are asking volunteers on the Internet to help classify the galaxies as either elliptical or spiral and note, where possible, in which direction they rotate. It would be the...

An influential Roman Catholic cardinal whose comments on evolution are closely followed condemned a court decision Wednesday that barred a Pennsylvania school district from teaching "intelligent design" in biology class.Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn of Vienna said in a lecture that restricting debate about Darwin's theory of...

Scientists want Internet users to help them sort through an unusual digital photo album: pictures of about 1 million galaxies. In a Web statement Wednesday, astronomers asked for volunteers to help classify the galaxies, identifying them as either elliptical or spiral, and noting, where possible,...

Upon entering The Drawing Impulse in American Art: 1900-1950, an exhibition of works on paper at the Hirschl and Adler Galleries, I was quick to dismiss it as pro forma and predictable, the result not of curatorial necessity but of the gallery's spring cleaning of...