The early universe is so far outside our understanding of how the world works that it is difficult to describe in words. At that time, the universe was not filled with stars and galaxies but with a boiling soup of quarks and gluons, with several black holes that were thrown, sometimes exploding like depth charges. … Read more
For more than two decades, textbooks and science fairs have been telling the same story that the universe is not only expanding, but accelerating. Now a new wave of data is quietly shaking up that picture and giving new life to a mysterious ending called the Big Crunch, where everything in the universe finally collapses … Read more
Learn more about how microwaves have changed the way we communicate and helped us understand the origins of the universe. The Pope is watching. This had a better job. Such thoughts probably crossed Guglielmo Marconi’s mind in 1932 as he set up a special antenna in the Vatican gardens while His Holiness Pope Pius XI … Read more
For the first time, scientists directly measure the speed of hot gas exploding from the heart of M82a galaxy that forms stars ten times faster than the Milky Way. The wind is traveling at more than 3 million miles per hour, fast enough, researchers say, to drive a massive star stream that stretches tens of … Read more
The universe is as nervous as the Earth or the Moon. From The launch of Hubble and the James Webb Telescopeswe have discovered many new things about the universe, and we are beginning to know what is out there. Astronomers have been mapping certain regions of space for a while, and they recently made a … Read more