An international collaboration BICEP2 has discovered traces of gravitational waves which existed during the inflationary phase of the creation of the universe, before any of the particles we know today existed. Gravitational waves from inflation generate a faint but distinctive … Continue reading
This the biggest haul ever of exoplanets (planets outside the Solar System) have been identified by analysing data from the Kepler Telescope. All 719 of the new planets are members of multi-planet systems—stars with more than one orbiting satellite. Researchers used … Continue reading
Professor of geoscience, John Valley of the University of Wisconsin, and others, have used atom-probe tomography for the first time to determine the age of a zircon crystal from the Jack Hills region of Western Australia, dating it to 4.4 … Continue reading