Elusive black hole radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking may have influenced the way the universe took shape after the Big ...

Our current best theories of the universe suggest that dark energy is making it expand faster and faster, but new ...

New insights from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer unprecedented images of the universe at 380,000 years old, revealing ...

Some time after the universe burst into existence, according to the Big Bang theory, it became filled with microwave ...

A new map of cosmic expansion suggests that dark energy evolves over time, hinting that the universe doesn’t work the way we ...

For the first time, scientists have captured the clearest and most detailed image of the cosmic microwave background ...

Or does the star merely look reddish, since its light has had to travel through a cloud of cosmic dust to reach our ... Now, two astronomers have published a 3D map that documents the properties ...

Or does the star merely look reddish, since its light has had to travel through a cloud of cosmic dust to reach our telescope ... Now, two astronomers have published a 3D map that documents the ...

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy just constructed a detailed, three-dimensional map of the cosmic dust in ... absorption and scattering of background light by intermediate ...

This radiation could spell trouble for atmospheres ... “we can get down to planets that straddle where we think the cosmic shoreline is,” Kempton said, “and map out where that boundary is.” Even ...

Researchers now think that gravitational memory could be written on photons all over the cosmic microwave background—the oldest radiation in the universe. Though gravitational memory is thought ...

Credit: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons To test this theory, researchers examined how black hole collisions might have influenced the cosmic microwave background, a faint radiation that has ...