Cosmology
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…
This is Getting Boring: General Relativity Passes Yet another Big Test!
[/caption] Published in 1915, Einstein's theory of general relativity (GR) passed its first big test just a few years later,…
Dark Matter in Distant Galaxy Groups Mapped for the First Time
[/caption] Galaxy density in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field, with colors representing the redshift of the galaxies, ranging from…
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ESA’s Tough Choice: Dark Matter, Sun Close Flyby, Exoplanets (Pick Two)
Key questions relevant to fundamental physics and cosmology, namely the nature of the mysterious dark energy and dark matter (Euclid);…
Universe to WMAP: ΛCDM Rules, OK?
[/caption] The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) science team has finished analyzing seven full years' of data from the little…
Searching for Life in the Multiverse
[/caption] Other intelligent and technologically capable alien civilizations may exist in our Universe, but the problems with finding and communicating…
The Extremely Large Telescope
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is planning on building a massive - and I do mean massive - telescope in…
Early Galaxy Pinpoints Reionization Era
[/caption] Astronomers looking to pinpoint when the reionozation of the Universe took place have found some of the earliest galaxies…
New CMB Measurements Support Standard Model
New measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) - the leftover light from the Big Bang - lend further support…