Cosmology
Seeing the Web Connecting Galaxies Across the Universe
One hundred years ago, we didn't know there was anything outside of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Now we…
Astronomers are Working to Put a Radio Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon by 2025
Technicians at Berkeley Lab are building an experiment that will conduct radio astronomy on the far side of the Moon…
The Race to Find the Farthest Galaxy Continues
The very early Universe was a busy place, particularly when stars and galaxies began to form. Astronomers eagerly search for…
A Collision Between Gigantic Galaxy Clusters. Too Big, Too Early
Just when cosmologists have a workable theory for when and how galaxy collisions happened in the early Universe, something challenges…
A New Technique Confirms the Universe is 69% Dark Energy, 31% Matter (Mostly Dark)
How much "stuff" is there in the Universe? You'd think it would be easy to figure out. But, it's not.…
The Case for a Small Universe
Astronomers don't know if the Universe is finite or infinite. Whatever the case, it's larger than the Observable Universe, which…
Another New Way to Measure Distance in the Universe: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
A team of astronomers have developed a new technique that relies on Baryon Acoustic Oscillations to measure cosmic distances.
It's Going to Take More Than Early Dark Energy to Resolve the Hubble Tension
Astronomers have measured the Universe's expansion rate and found that various methods don't agree, and their error bars don't overlap.…
A New Way to Measure the Expansion Rate of the Universe: Redshift Drift
Almost all the galaxies in the Universe are speeding away from us because of the Big Bang and the acceleration…
JWST is the Perfect Machine to Resolve the Hubble Tension
Over the last decade, various measurements have disagreed over the rate that the Universe is expanding. Astronomers use Cepheid variables…