The earliest galaxies may have scrambled our reading of the Universe. A new study challenges the traditional interpretation ...

The cosmic microwave background (CMB ... offering an image of the early Universe. The tiny temperature variations in the CMB reflect density fluctuations of matter in the young Universe.

Richard Howard Where's the coldest spot in the universe? Not on the moon ... which has an estimated background temperature of about minus 455°F. As far as scientists can tell, the lowest ...

"This shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology," said the reseachers.

The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides ...

fluctuations in background radiation. The universe is permeated by uniform radiation of the very low temperature of 2.7 degrees Kelvin. This is believed to be left over from the original very high ...

Dark matter, though invisible, weighs heavily on how we understand the universe. Its gravity sculpts galaxies, holds clusters ...

Astronomers discovered cosmic microwave background radiation in ... should now be thinly spread across the whole Universe. CMBR is everywhere at a temperature of about -270°C.

The universe began with a bang—an explosion so intense, it forged the fabric of space and time itself. This pivotal moment, ...

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps ...