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

Catching these faint echoes of the big bang is a major goal of NASA’s next generation of space astronomy missions, a plan the agency has tagged “Beyond Einstein.” Beyond Einstein?

People talk about the universe starting with a Big Bang, but how could we possibly ... telescope shows the whole sky filled with a glow, day and night. This glow is called the Cosmic Microwave ...

Astronomers have spotted a surprising signature of oxygen in a faint galaxy that dates back to the universe ... prompting ...

One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's ...

But if you’re an astronomer seeking a collection of photons that have been streaming toward us since just after the Big Bang, then the ... by inflation generate a faint but distinctive pattern ...

But within the cooling glow, the first neutral hydrogen atoms were condensing out of the primordial quark-gluon soup. A hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, helium hydride formed the first ...

Around the same time, Robert Dicke (1916?997) at nearby Princeton University had been pursuing theories about the big bang. He had elaborated on existing theory to suggest that if there had been a ...

There would be no darkness between stars in the night sky and the sky would have a uniform glow with the similar wavelengths of light from stars in any directions. The Big Bang and subsequent ...

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded precise confirmation of the age of the cosmos and its rate of expansion.