7 results found for cosmology

Mark Hindmarch talks about our understanding of how we explain the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang.

Chemistry has progressed in a way few outsiders appreciate. It underpins many other sciences; from genomics and molecular biology, food and sports science, through to cosmology and planetary science. Why hasn't the public impression of chemistry evol....

How these ultra-large objects indicate the presence of both dark matter and dark energy.

Theory and evidence for gravity waves

Modern scientific theory describes a perfectly symmetrical Universe. A Universe in which matter is destroyed within an instant of its appearance and where nothing we now know could ever have happened. Human life itself seems to be lopsided, as the sp....

Light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago has reached Earth, setting a new record for the most distant astronomical object yet observed. The characteristics of the explosion show that massive stars were already forming only 630 million yea....

An overview of the Universe and its component parts e.g. galaxies, stars, planets etc.