To explore this long-standing mystery, an international team of scientists formed a group known as the Collaboration for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. When you look out at the distant Universe, you’re also looking back in ...

Full-Sky Map Of Cosmic Background Radiation, A Full-Sky Map Produced By The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (Wmap) Showing Cosmic Background Radiation, A Very Uniform Glow Of Microwaves Emitted ...

A glow undetectable to the human eye permeates the universe. This light is the remnant signature of the cosmic beginning — a dense, hot fireball that burst forth and created all mass, energy, and time ...

The largest collaborative undertaking yet to explore the relic light emitted by the infant universe has taken a step forward with the selection of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to lead the U.S ...

Scientists just got a valuable tool in their quest to understand the cosmic microwave background radiation that persists from the earliest days of the universe. The South Pole Telescope recently ...

Cosmic microwave background is the oldest light in the universe. Cosmic microwave background is the oldest light in the universe. It was set free when the universe was a mere 380,000 years old and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI ...

The first 400,000 years after the Big Bang are inaccessible to us by using light; the material that filled the entire cosmos made it opaque. However, neutrinos interact very little with ordinary ...

“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” That might be stretching things a bit, especially when the “paradise” in question is in New Jersey, but there’s a move afoot to redevelop the site of ...