181 scientists have worked on the paper issued on 20 March which, following extensive analysis of the data obtained from the Planck Satellite, have concluded that: The simplest inflationary models have passed an exacting test with the Planck data The full … Continue reading
The Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age, contents and origins. Planck is a European Space Agency mission. NASA contributed mission-enabling … Continue reading
It looks very much like we have “a” Higgs boson No more Higgs-like, Higgs-ish or even Higgsy boson. The CMS and ATLAS collaborations, the two large experiments operating at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, have now gathered sufficient … Continue reading
NASA will host a news conference at 8 a.m. PDT (11 a.m. EDT) Thursday, March 21, to discuss the first cosmology results from Planck, a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA participation. The briefing will be held at NASA … Continue reading
You live in the universe, but do you really understand what the universe is like, where you are within it, or how you got here? If you can show that you understand the basic facts about where you are and … Continue reading