A new study challenges the traditional interpretation of the cosmic microwave background, this fossil light from the Big Bang. Researchers from the universities of Bonn, Prague, and Nanjing propose a ...

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.

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, the stuff left over from the Big Bang, is only 2.75 Kelvin, however. Scientists believe that the temperature of the universe may have been nearly ...

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 ...

The Cosmic Microwave Background carries with it a record of events throughout the 13.8-billion-year history of the universe. Just as Charles Darwin once used the fossil record to tell the story of ...

The universe has a magnitude that’s hard ... the Boomerang Nebula has a temperature lower than its background radiation, according to European Space Agency. It is only one degree warmer than ...

Astronomers have heard the faint hum of gravitational waves echoing throughout the universe for the first ... been hunting for the gravitational wave background, a faint but persistent echo ...

Nowadays the average temperature of the universe sits just below a chilly 3 Kelvin, a steep decline from the primordial 3000 Kelvin. This was deduced from studies of the cosmic background ...

Host Regina Barber talks with two cosmologists about the cosmic microwave background, its implications for the universe's origins and the discovery that started it all. Interested in more space ...

The fabric of the universe is constantly rippling, according to astronomers who have discovered a background buzz of gravitational waves. These waves may be produced by supermassive black holes ...