Someone writes in to ask about the significance of the new photos taken by the James Webb Telescope.

Will it really see the most distant galaxies? Do the quoted distances prove they are billions of years old?

Are cratered planetary landscapes and moonscapes, and colliding galaxies, evidence against an Intelligent Designer?

Should we make a treaty with aliens that might have advanced weapons and could destroy us before we know it? Who would sign it; for the people, for the aliens?

We explain why CMI is not interested in entertaining ‘electric universe’ ideas.

Despite the latest failure to detect dark matter, why do they continue searching?

Is the physical data enough to justify any cosmological theory?

In theory, we shouldn’t be here.

It’s an ‘out there’ concept that doesn’t help to explain why we are down here.

When it comes to explaining how our universe came into being, widespread speculation is embraced over hard evidence.

Oxford scientists cast doubt on intelligent life outside Earth; Elon Musk says this is all the more reason to colonize space.

It’s irrational to think there is such a thing as ‘free energy’ in the universe.