Big Bang Stories
What is Dark Energy? Inside our accelerating, expanding Universe
11 min read
Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began with a rapid expansion we call the big bang. After this initial expansion, which lasted a fraction of a second, gravity started to slow the universe down. But the cosmos wouldn’t stay…
Article3 months ago
NASA’s Webb Identifies the Earliest Strands of the Cosmic Web
4 min read
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a thread-like arrangement of 10 galaxies that existed just 830 million years after the big bang.
Article10 months ago
Lunar Crater Radio Telescope: Illuminating the Cosmic Dark Ages
6 min read
The early-stage NASA concept could see robots hang wire mesh in a crater on the Moon’s far side, creating a radio telescope to help probe the dawn of the universe. After years of development, the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT)…
Article3 years ago