Cosmology

ESA’s Tough Choice: Dark Matter, Sun Close Flyby, Exoplanets (Pick Two)

Key questions relevant to fundamental physics and cosmology, namely the nature of the mysterious dark energy and dark matter (Euclid);…

15 years ago

Seven-Year WMAP Results: No, They’re NOT Anomalies

Since the day the first Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data were released, in 2003, all manner of cosmic microwave…

15 years ago

Universe to WMAP: ΛCDM Rules, OK?

[/caption] The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) science team has finished analyzing seven full years' of data from the little…

15 years ago

Searching for Life in the Multiverse

[/caption] Other intelligent and technologically capable alien civilizations may exist in our Universe, but the problems with finding and communicating…

15 years ago

The Extremely Large Telescope

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is planning on building a massive - and I do mean massive - telescope in…

15 years ago

Early Galaxy Pinpoints Reionization Era

[/caption] Astronomers looking to pinpoint when the reionozation of the Universe took place have found some of the earliest galaxies…

15 years ago

New CMB Measurements Support Standard Model

New measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) - the leftover light from the Big Bang - lend further support…

15 years ago

If We Live in a Multiverse, How Many Are There?

[/caption] Theoretical physics has brought us the notion that our single universe is not necessarily the only game in town.…

15 years ago

Planck First Light

[/caption] One of the newest telescopes in space, the Planck spacecraft, recently completed its "first light" survey which began on…

15 years ago

What! No Parallel Universe? Cosmic Cold Spot Just Data Artifact

Rats! Another perplexing space mystery solved by science. New analysis of the famous "cold spot" in the cosmic microwave background…

15 years ago