Press ReleaseMay 22, 2012 The Older We Get, The Less We Know (Cosmologically) The universe is a marvelously complex place, filled with galaxies and larger-scale structures that have evolved over its 13.7-billion-year history. Those began as small perturbations of matter that grew over time, like ripples in a pond, as the universe expanded.   Read More...

Weekly Science UpdateMay 18, 2012 Galaxies in the Young Cosmos The universe was born about 13.7 billion years ago in the big bang. The Sun and its system of planets formed about five billion years ago. What happened, then, during that long, intervening stretch of nearly nine billion years?   Read More...

Weekly Science UpdateMay 11, 2012 Capturing Planets The discovery of planets around other stars has led to the realization that alien solar systems often have bizarre features - at least they seem bizarre to us because they were so unexpected.  Read More...