Primordial Gravitational Waves

New Telescopes to Study the Aftermath of the Big Bang

The NSF just awarded researchers at UChicago to start developing the CMB-S4 experiment, which will map the earliest moments of…

6 months ago

The Gaia Mission Could Moonlight as a Gravitational Wave Detector

A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge recently showed how the Gaia mission could also help in the…

6 years ago

Beyond WIMPs: Exploring Alternative Theories Of Dark Matter

A team of scientists are looking beyond WIMPs in the search for Dark Matter, one which could be confirmed in…

8 years ago

It Turns Out Primordial Gravitational Waves Weren’t Found

Last March, international researchers from the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) telescope at the South Pole claimed that…

9 years ago