Cosmology News

The five-year data analysis of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has been released, giving new and improved measurements of the age (13.73±0.12 billion years), geometry (flat), and composition (4.26% baryonic matter, 23.3% dark matter, 72.1% dark energy) of the universe. You can read more here, here, and here.

Tags: Age of the universe, Big Bang, CMB, Cosmology, Inflationary model, WMAP