universe

Why astronomers want to put a telescope on the dark side of the moon

Posted in Hardware, Science on 27th Sep, 2023
by Alex Muller

Once landed, LuSEE-Night will peer out into the Universe's Dark Age vastness for about 18 months beginning in 2026..

Our Universe Is Suspiciously Unlikely To Exist-Unless It Is One Of Many

Posted in Science on 11th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller

How do we know just how atypical our universe is? To answer that we need to work out the probabilities of each combination of constants.

Interview with Cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton

Posted in Interviews, Science on 29th Aug, 2022
by Alex Muller

'Our universe is one tiny grain of dust in a beautiful cosmos'

How Will The Universe End? Scientists Seek An Answer In The Biggest Galaxy Map Yet

Posted in Science on 29th Jan, 2022
by Alex Muller

By mapping the large structure of the universe over time, scientists hope to chart how the rate of expansion-and perhaps the dark energy driving it, has changed and how it might in the future.

How old is the universe? Our answer keeps getting better

Posted in Featured, Science on 6th Aug, 2021
by Alex Muller

As measurements of the early and modern universes have gotten more precise, they’ve started to clash.