Cosmology
Taking Measure: A ‘New’ Most Distant Galaxy
"The farthest galaxy yet seen!" Haven't we heard that one before? (See here and here, for example.) While it's true…
How Will the Universe End?
The evidence that the Universe began with the Big Bang is very compelling. 13.8 billion years ago, the entire Universe…
Goodbye Big Bang, Hello Black Hole? A New Theory Of The Universe’s Creation
Could the famed "Big Bang" theory need a revision? A group of theoretical physicists suppose the birth of the universe…
Cometary Collisions Could Have Created Life On Earth
The energy of comets smashing into Earth billions of years ago could have generated life out of the building blocks…
The Curvature of the Universe
A while back we introduced you to Zogg the alien from Betelgeuse. Zogg has been busy helping aliens understand bizarre…
Big Bang’s Sound-Like Waves Show Up In Lab Simulation
An ultracold vacuum chamber ran a simulation of the early universe and came up with some interesting findings about how…
Why “The Big Bang” Is a Terrible Name
Have a discussion about the origins of the Universe and, ere long, someone will inevitably use the term "the Big…
Hubble Looks Back In Time To See Shape Of Galaxies 11 Billion Years Ago
What we’re gonna’ do here is go back. Way back into time. Back to when the only thing that existed…
New 3-D Map Shows Large Scale Structures in the Universe 9 Billion Years Ago
I remember seeing the Hubble 3-D IMAX movie in 2010 and literally gasping when the view pulled back from zooming…
GRB Lights Up Ancient Hidden Galaxy
Once upon a time, more than 12.7 billion years ago, a star was poised on the edge of extinction. It…