Artist's concept of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) spacecraft. John Mather shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work with the Cosmic Background Explorer, or COBE. Launched in 1989, ...

VANCOUVER, Canada — Hidden in the peaks and valleys imprinted on the cosmic microwave background — the radiation leftover from the Big Bang — is a wealth of information not only about the early ...

The earliest galaxies may have scrambled our reading of the Universe. A new study challenges the traditional interpretation of the cosmic microwave background, this fossil light from the Big Bang.

Nearly forty years ago, two radio astronomers at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey were testing a telescope when they discovered unexplained static coming from every direction in the sky. After removing ...

At least for me, the most interesting thing in the popular superhero TV show WandaVision is the brief mention of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It happens in Episode Four, "We Interrupt This ...

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. My colleagues and I have published a new study that suggests ...

General relativity is one of the most successful theories mankind has ever developed, but one of its predictions—the existence of gravity waves—has never been confirmed. Gravity waves are analogous to ...