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

It’s unclear whether science as a discipline—and scientists as people—will ever be able to answer some questions definitively ...

Scientists have created a new map of the dark matter in the universe. Using radiation left over from the Big Bang, researchers mapped the gravitational effects of the mysterious substance. The map ...

Researchers used the Atacama Cosmology Telescope to create this new map of the dark matter. The orange regions show where there is more mass; purple where there is less or none. The typical features ...

launch June 30, will journey into deep space on a voyage to explore some of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos.

The first suggestion of the Big Bang was in 1912. Astronomer Vesto Slipher “conducted a series of observations of spiral galaxies (which were believed to be nebulae) and measured their Doppler ...