We obviously can’t put the universe on a giant set of scales, but scientists have found astonishingly clever ways to figure out how much it “weighs.” It’s a mix of observation, maths, and cosmic ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our universe in response to recent new data. The cosmological constant, which describes how our universe ...

His latest book, Discordance, fits into the class of conventional popular cosmology, in so far that it is an account of how our present understanding of the Universe has emerged. But it is also, with ...