NASA’s $4 Billion Roman Space Telescope Heads To Florida For Launch
WFIRST, shown here in an artist’s rendering, will carry a Wide Field Instrument to provide astronomers with Hubble-quality…
The Force That Holds Atoms Together May Be Driving the Universe Apart
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The universe is expanding faster every second, and physicists…
Is Dark Energy Unnecessary? Mathematicians Challenge Standard Cosmological Model of Universe
Mathematicians from University College London and the University of California, Davis, have published a mathematical proof that the…
Could a cosmic uncertainty principle help explain dark matter?
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Cosmic Voids May Contain the Universe’s Best Secrets
Nature abhors a vacuum, so the saying goes, but nobody told the universe. Space is filled with cosmic…
Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes
You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our…
The Universe may have begun inside a black hole, not a Big Bang
For nearly a century, modern cosmology has treated the Big Bang as the opening moment of everything, the…
The universe is significantly older than previously thought, astronomers find
Galaxies spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope have been causing trouble for the standard story of cosmic…
Scientists Complete Largest 3D Map of the Universe to Probe Dark Energy
A thin slice of the map produced by the DESI five-year survey shows galaxies and quasars above and…
Largest 3D Map of the Universe Is Adding Serious Fuel to the Cosmology Crisis
Last week, the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI) concluded its first official survey. Over the past five years,…
Largest 3D Map of the Universe Spanning Over 47 Million Galaxies Could Rewrite Physics Forever
This is just a small portion of the DESI map, revealing the large-scale structure of the universe. Each…
Scientists reveal the hidden forces shaping how gravity works across the Universe
Gravity behaves predictably in your daily life. Drop a ball, and it falls. Planets loop around stars. On…