#Cosmology

Articles (11)

• 🇺🇸 Student Team Finds One of the Oldest Stars in the Universe that Migrated to the Milky Way — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  A class of undergraduate students at University of Chicago has used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to discover one of the oldest stars in the universe, a star that formed in a companion...

  Related: #Astronomy, #Education
• 🇺🇸 Is the Universe Defective? Part 4: Hiding in Plain Darkness — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  The WHAT? Yeah, the vortons. It’s not an anime monster-hunting show. It’s not some AI startup company. It’s a…it’s a thing. I think.

  Related: #Dark Matter
• 🇺🇸 Is the Universe Defective? Part 3: The Great Vanishing Act — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  And yeah, we have a problem.

  Related: #Mystery
• 🇺🇸 Is the Universe Defective? Part 2: The Persistence of Memory — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  But here’s the thing about these defects. They can’t just go away. They’re stuck.

  Related: #Memory
• 🇺🇸 Is the Universe Defective? Part 1: The Good Old Days — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Every time you flip a light switch, or check the time, or feel the sodium ions wiggling in your brain — don’t think about that one too much—you’re assuming something fundamental. You’re assuming the u...

  Related: #Philosophy
• 🇺🇸 The Early Universe was Hot, Dense, and Soupy — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  MIT physicists have observed the first clear evidence that quarks create a wake as they speed through quark-gluon plasma, confirming the plasma behaves like a liquid.

  Related: #Early Universe
• 🇺🇸 Finding Gold In A Stellar Explosion — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  NASA telescopes have detected what could be the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected. A merging pair of neutron stars generated when they merged and exploded as a kilonova. It happened in an unu...

  Related: #Astronomy
• 🇺🇸 Illinois and UChicago Physicists Develop a New Method for Measuring Cosmic Expansion — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  A team of astrophysicists, cosmologists, and physicists has developed a novel way to compute the Hubble constant using gravitational waves. As our capability to observe gravitational waves improves in...

  Related: #Astrophysics, #Scientific Innovation
• 🇺🇸 The Universe's Most Extraordinary Construction Site — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  Astronomers have discovered a extraordinary celestial construction site hiding behind a natural magnifying glass in space and what they've found is unlike anything seen before. A cluster of at least 1...

  Related: #Astronomical Discovery, #Galaxy Formation, #Gravitational Lensing
• 🇺🇸 Searching Out Missing Links in Galaxy Evolution — 20/02/2026 [USA]

  How do galaxies evolve? When did they start forming? Those are questions astronomers and cosmologists are working to answer. The standard path includes early bright starforming activity, a middle age,...

  Related: #Stellar Evolution, #Cosmic Research
• 🇺🇸 Why Cosmic ‘Dark Matter’ Is Living On Borrowed Time — 20/02/2026 [USA]

  A plethora of newly discovered baryonic (or normal) dark matter means the first step toward the end of dark matter theory. Or so say the authors of a new paper just accepted by the journal Physical R...

  Related: #Dark Matter Theory, #Galaxy Formation, #Alternative Physics