Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster and a former radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He is the author of Breakthrough: Spectacular stories of scientific discovery from the Higgs particle to black holes (Faber & Faber, 2021).

Recent articles by Marcus Chown

If the universe is expanding, how is it possible that the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy are getting closer to one another? © NASA/ESA/STSCL

If the universe is expanding, how are the Milky Way and Andromeda getting closer together?

What’s on the other side of a black hole? © Getty Images

What is on the other side of a black hole?

Dark matter: is it time we gave up looking for it? © Getty Images

Dark matter: Is it time we gave up looking for it?

These 4 signs of alien technology could lead us to extraterrestrial life © Getty Images

These 4 signs of alien technology could lead us to extraterrestrial life

The mission to search for signs of alien technology in our Solar System and beyond © Magic Torch

Project Galileo: The search for alien tech hiding in our Solar System

Superluminous supernovae: How we’ll find the most powerful explosions in the Universe © Getty Images

Superluminous supernovae: How we’ll find the most powerful explosions in the Universe

Should we be worried about Earth’s magnetic core? © Alamy

Earth’s magnetic field: Should we be worried about the poles flipping?

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What's inside the fifth dimension?

Photomultiplier tubes in Japan’s Super-Kamiokande detector facility, buried 1km underground, stand ready to pick up neutrinos generated 295km away in Tokai © Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo

Where did all the antimatter go?

theory of everything © Science Photo library

Why a theory of everything may never be possible – or any use

Does the universe have an edge? © Getty

Does the universe have an edge?

Inside the simple computer program that could explain why the Universe exists at all © Tom Straw

Inside the simple computer program that could explain why the Universe exists at all

A visualisation of two black holes merging © Caltech/R Hurt (IPAC)

The cracks in cosmology Why our Universe doesn't add up

The Universe's 7 biggest unsolved mysteries © Sam Chivers

The Universe’s 7 biggest mysteries (and why they’re unsolved)

What was the Big Bang? © Science Photo Library

What was before the Big Bang? Everything you need to know