This image unveiled March 21, 2013, shows the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as observed by the European Space Agency's Planck space observatory. Among the discoveries: The universe is older ...

Two fresh ideas are giving scientists new ways to think about how the universe’s hidden mass came to be. Together, they paint ...

If you go all the way back to where neutral atoms first formed, you can see the cosmic microwave background. Buried in the details is the Universe's first evidence for dark matter.

Astronomers have released a new "baby picture" of the universe. The all-sky image draws on nine years' worth of data from a now-retired spacecraft dubbed the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ...

Long before stars lit up the sky, the universe was a hot, dense place where simple chemistry quietly set the stage for ...

The picture is sparkly and beautiful, a great choice for a computer background. It is also, more important, an entirely new view of the universe.

The images of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is a fossil relic of the first light in the universe, reveal what the 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos was like just 380,000 years after the ...

That radiation provides an image of what the universe looked like about 400,000 years after the Big Bang, when photons first streamed into space.

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The European Space Agency has released the most detailed-ever “baby picture” of the universe, a heat map from the cosmos as it appeared only 380,000 years after the big bang. The map largely ...

The detection of a predicted universal background of gravitational waves rippling across the fabric of space-time was announced last Wednesday by the NANOGrav consortium of over 190 scientists at ...