Cosmology
It Turns Out Primordial Gravitational Waves Weren’t Found
Last March, international researchers from the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) telescope at the South Pole claimed that…
Like a BOSS: How Astronomers are Getting Precise Measurements of the Universe’s Expansion Rate
Astrophysicists studying the expansion of the Universe with the largest galaxy catalogs ever assembled are ushering in an exciting era…
What Is This Empty Hole In Space?
What may appear at first glance to be an eerie, empty void in an otherwise star-filled scene is really a…
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Hearing the Early Universe’s Scream: Sloan Survey Announces New Findings
Imagine a single mission that would allow you to explore the Milky Way and beyond, investigating cosmic chemistry, hunting planets, mapping galactic…
New Simulation Models Galaxies Like Never Before
Astronomy is, by definition, intangible. Traditional laboratory-style experiments that utilize variables and control groups are of little use to the scientists who…
NASA’s NuSTAR Scans the Sun with X-ray Vision
What if you had x-ray vision like Superman? Or if those funny-looking glasses they advertised in comic books in the 60s…
New Signal May Be Evidence of Dark Matter, Say Researchers
Dark matter is the architect of large-scale cosmic structure and the engine behind proper rotation of galaxies. It's an indispensable part…
Weekly Space Hangout – Dec. 5, 2014: Orion’s Successful Launch!
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) (more…)
New Cosmological Theory Goes Inflation-Free
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation is one of the greatest discoveries of modern cosmology. Astrophysicist George Smoot once likened…
Higgs Boson Threatened The Early Universe, But Gravity Saved The Day
All the physical properties of our Universe - indeed, the fact that we even exist within a Universe that we can…