One could argue that cosmologists had made little progress in our understanding of these basic facts since the discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the afterglow of the Big Bang, in the ...

Finally some answers on dark energy, the mysterious master of the Universe ... Then, at 380,000 years, Suntzeff said these sound waves “froze,” leaving the cosmic microwave background.

The WMAP spacecraft team won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background and revolutionizing the study of cosmology.

Then we see images at specific wavelengths: 551 nanometers (blue), 831 nm (green), and 848 nm (red); note that the colors are only indicative, for display purposes. The dark spot is most prominent ...

But dark matter will bend, or lens, background light, and this is how its whereabouts was mapped by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). Webb telescope 'fingerprints' earliest galaxies Gaia ...

While there are potentially many colors that might be used to make phosphorescent (or glow-in-the-dark) items, yellow-green is by far the most popular and most common color.Part of the reason lies ...