It drives the movements of stars and galaxies, but dark matter is invisible. While it remains a colossal mystery, a study ...
SPHEREx's first images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the ...
Inflation is unimaginably faster. It would have transformed the universe from tiny to cosmic is a snap. Continue reading “How ...
NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...
If the universe sprung forth in this manner, then probably inflation has occurred in other places, perhaps an infinite number of places, beyond our horizon and outside of our time. The implication ...
The Hartle–Hawking proposal imagines a universe emerging from a smooth, compact geometry, yet it typically predicts too few inflationary e-folds to match our observations. Meanwhile, Vilenkin's ...
His 1981 paper heralded the virtues of inflation — an explanation for the smoothness, flatness and longevity of the Universe as well as the heat of the Big Bang — but it also challenged his ...
A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and to scour the Milky Way galaxy for hidden reservoirs of water, a key ...