Cosmology – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

A Question About Dark Matter Creation

There are many theories for how dark matter (and dark energy) are created. A nice summary of those processes,…

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope recently reported the discovery of the most distant single star ever identified, whose…

Distant galaxies appear to us today as they were when the light that we detect from them was emitted. …

A common misunderstanding about the Big Bang is that it has a center from which the Earth and everything…

Since the expansion of the universe is measured to be increasing as we observe objects which are at increasing…

Dust in space is formed in the atmospheres of certain types of stars. Our understanding of the formation of…

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