Douglas Adams told us the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42. If only cosmology were so straightforward. Astronomers have been arguing for years about a number every bit as fundamental, ...
Whether you call it a vibe shift or a paradigm shift, physicists must be ready to challenge their fundamental understanding ...
“The first thing we know about the universe is that it’s really, really big,” says cosmologist Michael Turner, who has been contemplating this reality for more than four decades now. “And because the ...
The solar system is moving through space over three times as fast as estimated, calling into question our best model of the ...
For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...