WUWM astronomy contributor Jean Creighton discusses cosmology ahead of "Birth of the Universe" at UWM's Manfred Olson Planetarium.

A team of researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope has produced the most detailed map of dark matter to date.

The plot represents the new model with the x-axis and the y-axis showing the minimum sizes of collapsing and expanding regions that can impact cosmological measurements. The contours are independent ...

About 13.8 billion years ago, within a millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the universe existed in an ultra-hot and dense state. Instead of protons and neutrons, the fundamental building blocks ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

Papst Benedikt XVI. uber "Schöpfung und Evolution" / Christoph Schönborn -- The reflections of Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI on evolution / Christoph Schönborn -- From a simple big bang to our ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...

TL;DR: The James Webb Space Telescope has collected extensive data enabling scientists to publish the largest and most detailed map of the universe, covering nearly the entire span of cosmic history.

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Everything humanity has ever touched, measured, or imagined as “normal” matter is a tiny sliver of reality. Less than 5 percent of the known cosmos is made of the atoms that build stars, smartphones, ...

On transmuting Boyle's law to Darwin's revolution / Stephen Jay Gould -- The evolution of cellular development / Lewis Wolpert -- The evolution of guns and germs / Jared Diamond -- The evolution of ...