June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... speed of light in the early universe would explain the cosmic microwave background without inflated ideas. Do the Planck CMB data contain evidence of a cyclical cosmology? Dark energy not required A faster speed of light in the early...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... its sister camera on Hera will be surveying the smallest asteroid humankind has ever visited. Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the DLR German Aerospace Center have donated two AFC...
April 2024
Rotation in the Universe
... to halt the expansion and then pull the material back together into a ‘Big Crunch’. Observations by the Planck spacecraft suggest that the universe we inhabit is very close to this critical density: as cosmologists would say, it is flat...
13 January 2016
High-energy theory models questioned as neutron star produces most energetic pulsed emission radiation ever detected
...,” explains Daniel Galindo Fernandez from ICCUB-IEEC, Barcelona. MAGIC Spokeperson Razmik Mirzoyan from the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) in Munich (Germany) says: "This is another very important result achieved by MAGIC on the...
26 January 2016
Scientists reveal a new way to test the origins of the Universe
... from the explosion of the big bang. Using probes such as the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) and Planck, researchers have already confirmed almost exactly the amount of variation in the CMB that is predicted by Inflation. Many...
10 May 2016
When sunspots are minimal, the solar magnetic field is at a maximum, say researchers
... team, based at the Aalto University Department of Computer Science, the ReSoLVE Centre of Excellence and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, used a global computer model of the Sun to seek an explanation for the...