Cosmology
Has the Cosmology Standard Model become a Rube Goldberg Device?
This week at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in the UK, physicists are challenging the evidence for the…
Are the BICEP2 Results Invalid? Probably Not.
Recently rumors have been flying that the BICEP2 results regarding the cosmic inflationary period may be invalid. It all started with…
“Fossil Galaxy” Discovered From the Early Universe
A small galaxy circling the Milky Way may be a fossil left over from the early Universe. The stars in…
Watch Live Webcast: Secrets of the Universe’s First Light
Just a month ago came the news of the first direct evidence of primordial gravitational waves — ripples in the…
Cosmologists Cast Doubt on Inflation Evidence
It was just a week ago that the news blew through the scientific world like a storm: researchers from the…
We’ve Discovered Inflation! Now What?
Days like these make being an astrophysicist interesting. On the one hand, there is the annoucement of BICEP2 that the…
That Moment When the “Father of Inflation” Learns of the Detection of Gravitational Waves
Andrei Linde, a professor in the Department of Physics at Stanford University, is one of the main authors of the…
Landmark Discovery: New Results Provide Direct Evidence for Cosmic Inflation
Astronomers have announced Nobel Prize-worthy evidence of primordial gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of spacetime — providing the first…
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…
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…