Credit: Deanne Fitzmaurice/National Geographic Image Collection/Alamy Our universe began with a bang—a big bang ... But “anything that makes small steps towards understanding the answers ...
Our most powerful telescopes have revealed that the cosmos is surprisingly simple on the largest visible scales. Likewise, our most powerful “microscope”, the Large Hadron Collider, has found no ...
New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.
Cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, has become a precise physical science, the foundation of which is our understanding of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) left from the ...