Fundamental questions science cannot yet answer
Mystery of life on earth and beyond extends to the Big Bang, dark matter and much more
Space mission hopes to solve the riddle of ‘missing’ matter
Europe to launch a telescope so scientists can look 10bn years into the universe’s past
Did death cheat Stephen Hawking of a Nobel Prize?
Black holes behave as the physicist predicted. But the ultimate award is beyond his reach
The cosmic conundrum that is dividing opinion
One universe with different determinations of its rate of expansion which do not agree
Hands off Hubble’s law: Renaming evidence for the big bang theory
Give Hubble his due and let’s try not to rewrite history
Georges Lemaître: the Belgian priest who preached the Big Bang
Even Einstein initially found Lemaître’s ‘big bang’ model of the origins of the universe far-fetched
Advanced speed camera measures how fast universe is expanding
Most accurate measure shows expansion clocked at 68km per second
Satellite provides unique view of the universe
Images indicate Big Bang took place 100 million years earlier than previous estimates
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