One of the most famous space-faring missions to do so was NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE ... (WMAP) and the European Space Agency's Planck satellite. Planck's observations mapped the CMB ...

The CMB tells us how the universe looked just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, when light was first able to travel through the cosmos unimpeded. By observing these photons today, we can map ... using ...

Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

Today, that first light is seen as the CMB, also known as the "surface of last scattering." An image of the CMB taken by the Planck telescope ... evolved from the CMB map to where galaxies stand ...

Soon, the name change will appear on Google Maps. Google will also change the name of Denali, the nation’s highest peak, back to Mount McKinley. Former President Barack Obama renamed the Alaska ...

"Formally, this light is called the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), but we sometimes just call it the universe's baby picture because it's a snapshot of when it was around 380,000 years old." The ...

“It’s a powerful way to see how structures have evolved from the CMB map to where galaxies stand today. By combining the lensing maps from ACT’s CMB data with DESI’s LRGs, the team created ...

The purpose of the MAP mission is to determine the geometry, content, and evolution of the universe via a 13 arcmin full-width-half-max (FWHM) resolution full sky map of the temperature anisotropy of ...

This raises a compelling question: how did these colossal objects form so quickly? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) have used advanced supercomputer simulations to ...

Abstract: We estimate cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization power spectra and temperature–polarization cross-spectra, from the 9-year data of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP).