Measurements of the faint afterglow of the Big Bang (known as the cosmic microwave background) are also important. They do not directly measure dark energy or how it evolves, but they provide ...

A zoo has welcomed the arrival of four newborn lion cubs, which has boosted the size of its pride to 10. The litter of rare northern African lions was the second batch to be born recently at ...

Seated in the audience, hundreds of his fellow scientists silently processed that the cosmic chronicle as they had come to know it may need revising. “It’s the most exciting thing that’s ...

Both reports evoked effusive praise from other cosmologists, who simultaneously confessed to a cosmic confusion about what it all meant. “I don’t think much is left standing as far as good ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope, or ACT, measured properties of the Big Bang’s thermal afterglow, known as the cosmic microwave background, with unprecedented sensitivity — particularly in the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's infancy—the earliest cosmic time yet accessible to humans. Measuring ...

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have created the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the characteristics of cosmic dust in the Milky Way galaxy, according to a study ...

Adult male rhinos can weigh over 5,000 pounds. An adult male lion, on the other hand, can weigh up to 550 pounds. That’s a big size difference, which is one of the reasons why you aren’t likely to see ...

The plot revealed a neat line separating our solar system’s bare rocks and snowballs from worlds wreathed in gas, a boundary he called the cosmic shoreline. “I was consciously trying to invoke an ...

Japan’s oldest lion, Oto, died on Monday at the age of 25, which is equivalent to a century in human years. Born in 1999 in Hokkaido’s Asahiyama Zoo, Oto had lived in the Toyohashi Zoo and ...