Key questions relevant to fundamental physics and cosmology, namely the nature of the mysterious dark energy and dark matter (Euclid);…
[/caption] The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) science team has finished analyzing seven full years' of data from the little…
[/caption] Other intelligent and technologically capable alien civilizations may exist in our Universe, but the problems with finding and communicating…
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is planning on building a massive - and I do mean massive - telescope in…
[/caption] Astronomers looking to pinpoint when the reionozation of the Universe took place have found some of the earliest galaxies…
New measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) - the leftover light from the Big Bang - lend further support…
[/caption] Theoretical physics has brought us the notion that our single universe is not necessarily the only game in town.…
[/caption] One of the newest telescopes in space, the Planck spacecraft, recently completed its "first light" survey which began on…
Rats! Another perplexing space mystery solved by science. New analysis of the famous "cold spot" in the cosmic microwave background…