Our entire reality could – in theory – be built on a bed of sand, teetering on the brink of collapse. If so, a new device ...

Yet in 2013, when the European Space Agency announced the map of the cosmic microwave ... of an inflation model of the ...

Hidden information in maps of galaxies spread across the universe could soon come forth, thanks to a new way of interrogating the data that preserves the three-dimensional nature of these maps. The ...

Related: How old is the universe? The maps give rise to new mysteries ... The name "Big Bang Theory" has been a popular way to talk about the concept among astrophysicists for decades, but ...

Scientists have constructed the largest 3-D map of our universe to date ... Einstein's "cosmological constant," which was an extension of his theory of general relativity. Einstein abandoned ...

There is zero evidence for other universes. So the biggest misconception about the multiverse is that it’s a bone fide theory that’s ... A full-sky map of the Cosmic Microwave Background ...

God only knows why any real scientist would expect the universe to just obligingly fit any theory. It never has. Good work University of Canterbury, and can we now get on with the real cosmology?

This bold concept could address dark matter mysteries and explain cosmic symmetry gaps. In Turok’s hypothesis, right-handed neutrinos—unobserved in our universe—could exist in the mirror ...