... times the field of view with the same resolving power, enabling revolutionary science in both exoplanets and cosmology. During its five-year mission, WFIRST’s exoplanet microlensing survey will discover thousands of new exoplanets, completing...
...,” according to Bandyopadhyay’s description of his radical concept, could “potentially make tremendous scientific discoveries in fields of cosmology and extrasolar planets.” An added advantage is that as it will be tucked away out of sight from Earth...
... in-between away from everything else at an accelerating pace. Now however, scientists are casting doubt on this standard cosmological model as new data has become available. The data relates to studies on a type of exploding star known as a Type...
... component of the constant could be used to explain this newly discovered force dubbed ‘dark energy’ and in modern cosmology the constant is now associated with the energy density of the vacuum of space. This energy density is thought...
... and a member of the Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration at NASA Goddard, where he pursues connections between cosmology, biology, and planetary science. Joseph Silk is a research professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA...
... bang, scientists use a model known as lambda CDM (or ΛCDM). The symbol for Lambda Λ refers to Albert Einstein’s cosmological constant which describes the energy density of space – a characteristic that we now associate with dark energy, while...