For the John Templeton Foundation, I wrote about the new NOVA Wonders series.
Across the globe and across history, people have looked up at the night sky and wondered about what they were seeing, and what remains hidden, in the heavens. With the help of modern science, we now know an incredible amount about what the universe contains, but have an equally potent awareness of just how much we don’t know. Fundamental questions — “What is the universe made of?” or “Are we alone?” — remain to be answered.
Those two questions are part of a series of six compelling and vexing questions explored in NOVA Wonders, a new series from the storied science television show NOVA, which has been produced by WGBH Boston and broadcast by PBS since 1974.
May 7, 2018, updated Mar 31, 2025