Cosmology
Shedding New Light on the Cosmic Dark Ages
[/caption] From a University of Cambridge press release: Remnants of the first stars have helped astronomers get closer to unlocking…
First Observational Evidence Other Universes?
In the realm of far out ideas in science, the notion of a multiverse is one of the stranger ones.…
Penrose: WMAP Shows Evidence of ‘Activity’ Before Big Bang
[/caption] Have scientists seen evidence of time before the Big Bang, and perhaps a verification of the idea of the…
A Cosmologist’s Wish List: Four Most-Wanted Discoveries
Cosmology is a fairly young science, one which attempts to reconstruct the history of our Universe from billions of years…
Cosmology
[/caption] Ever wonder why we are here, how and why the universe that we inhabit came to be, and what…
Cosmologists Provide Closest Measure of Elusive Neutrino
[/caption] Cosmologists – and not particle physicists -- could be the ones who finally measure the mass of the elusive…
Hubble Confirms Cosmic Acceleration with Weak Lensing
[/caption] Need more evidence that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating? Just look to the Hubble Space Telescope. An…
What is Space?
First, some simple answers: space is everything in the universe beyond the top of the Earth's atmosphere - the Moon,…
Cosmological Constant
[/caption] The cosmological constant, symbol Λ (Greek capital lambda), was 'invented' by Einstein, not long after he published his theory…
Big Bang Timeline
The Big Bang timeline is basically just a list of relative times at which the major events in the history…