What is the truth about the universe?

Many grand mysteries of the Universe have been cracked open by science, from the makeup of matter on Earth to the nature of the stars in the sky. The child who marvels at the adventures of Magellan or wonders about how the Universe works might worry: What is left for me to discover? read more

Let's take Earth as a starting point: Suppose we are to reduce the size of Earth to the size of a large cat flea: Yes, that's right. A small animal, a large one is about 2mm in size. If we reduced the Earth to this size our Sun would be small. read more

By studying the temperature of this background radiation, the group found that the universe is, in the jargon of Einstein's theory,"flat". This means that parallel lines will never meet, even over cosmically large distances. This flatness makes it relatively easy to account for the different types of matter in the universe. read more