Until we can directly detect the signatures of what was released earlier -- the cosmic neutrino background, gravitational waves from inflation, etc. -- the CMB will be our window into the earliest ...

The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) launched in 1989. One of its instruments measured the intensity of the microwave glow at wavelengths ranging from 0.1 to 10 millimeters across the entire sky.

Just when the search for exoplanets looked like the undisputed fashionable field of study for 2010, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is stepping to the forefront of astronomy and cosmology.

The cosmic tour adds to Google's mapping offerings that now include Earth, Mars and the moon. The package includes 125 Hubble images with captions and links to news and background information.

Scientists have taken another step toward understanding dark energy by peering through a cosmic cloud of water vapor billions of light-years away from Earth. Dark energy is the name given to the ...

The Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, or CMB for short, is a faint glow of light that fills the universe, falling on Earth from every direction with nearly uniform intensity.