You’ve looked up at the night sky. Maybe you’ve wondered how much you don’t know. Turns out, the scale of our ignorance about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twinkling golden stars surrounded by blue gas The term "Big Bang" is thrown around casually, to the point of becoming the title of ...

“This is the way the world ends,” said T. S. Elliot in his famous poem, “Not with a bang but a whimper.” These days, scientists consider the heat-death of the universe to be the whimper, but a new ...

That said, the results are fantastic. Not only do they see inflation directly and test it unambiguously (scalar index < 1) at 6 sigma, they see dark energy directly and test it unambiguously _from the ...