For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the cosmos. Unlike ancient philosophers imagining the universe’s origins, modern cosmologists use quantitative tools to gain insights ...

BENGALURU: A consortium of Indian cosmologists' have proposed to the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) that they be allowed to map the sky in specific cosmic microwave background (CMB) ...

This week, an international team of more than 160 astronomers working with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope released three preprint papers submitted to The Astrophysical Journal unveiling the most ...

You can now hold the universe in your hand with a 3D-printed model of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the oldest light in the universe. Like a time capsule sent from soon after the Big Bang, ...

A spectacular new map of the "oldest light" in the sky has just been released by the European Space Agency. It was acquired by the Planck telescope. Scientists say the map's mottled pattern is an ...

The most detailed map of "fossil" radiation from the Big Bang has been released, shedding new light to our understanding of the origins of the Universe MANILA, Philippines – Call it a “blueprint” of ...

New research by astronomers at Durham University in the United Kingdom suggests that the conventional wisdom about the content of the universe may be wrong. Utane Sawangwit and Tom Shanks looked at ...

The night sky appears completely black, stretched between the stars. The heavens, however, are literally glowing, everywhere, with microwave light left over from their violent infancy. This is the ...

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) holds an immense amount of information about the universe’s properties. The key is to map this radiation in such a way to capture the smallest detail. Scientists ...

Imagine having a telescope that could see almost 14 billion years back in time to when the universe was just forming. There is a project underway called CMB-S4 that plans to build two next-generation ...