This Mysterious Cosmic Substance May Be Older Than the Universe Itself—And It Just Might ...
It drives the movements of stars and galaxies, but dark matter is invisible. While it remains a colossal mystery, a study ...
NASA SPHEREx telescope is launched to study universe's origins
A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and to scour the Milky Way galaxy for hidden reservoirs of water, a key ...
No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...
Phys.org1 个月
New JPL space mission seeks to unravel the mystery of cosmic 'inflation'
Before there was light, there was cosmic inflation. Before life, planet Earth, the first galaxies—and even before the violent explosion of hot dense primordial stuff scientists have ...
The Spokesman-Review1 个月
NASA telescope will study what put the bang in the big bang
The primary goal of the mission is to probe the theory of “cosmic inflation.” The gist of the theory is that, back in the day – well, literally at the beginning of time and space ...
Arizona Daily Star15 天
How U of A research is helping find the origins of the Milky Way, universe
University of Arizona researchers are among a group of scientists who hope to discover what happened immediately after the Big Bang, when the universe expanded in a fraction of a ...