Big news came down the pike yesterday. For the first time ever, it was announced that scientists have directly detected the existence of dark matter - elusive particles thought to account for roughly a quarter of the universe’s mass under current cosmological models. There are still numerous, fundamental questions to tackle about a universe in […]

M33 (NGC 598), spiral galaxy in Triangulum, is thought to be some 2.6 million light years distant — but that estimate may require further revision. Image credit: Adam Block / NOAO / AURA / NSF
Take a gander at today’s fascinating press release from Ohio State University:
An Ohio State University astronomer and his colleagues have […]

Wow, talk about “first light”…
After three years of eager anticipation, bigtime news was released Thursday from NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). The spacecraft has been invaluable thus far in providing the most accurate measurements to date of variations in the cosmic microwave background radiation (anisotropies), helping cosmologists greatly refine their models describing the age […]