New research by astronomers at Durham University in the United Kingdom suggests that the conventional wisdom about the content of the universe may be wrong. Utane Sawangwit and Tom Shanks looked at ...

New research by astronomers suggests that the conventional wisdom about the content of the universe may be wrong. Researchers looked at observations from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP ...

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) was discovered serendipitously in the mid-1960s by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, providing crucial observational evidence for the Big Bang theory through the ...

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The Cosmic Microwave Background was created as the first atoms formed hundreds of thousands of years after the Big Bang, and it retains information about the formation of the Universe. Discovering it ...

Not so long ago, cosmology was, half-jokingly, thought of as “a search for two numbers”. The numbers in question were the Hubble constant, which measures the rate at which the Universe is expanding, ...

Scientists announced today new evidence supporting the theory that the infant universe expanded from subatomic to astronomical size in a fraction of a second after its birth. The finding is based on ...

(Image: Stephan's Quintet, also known as the Hickson Compact Group 92, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Stephan's Quintet is a group of five galaxies, but group member NGC 7320, at upper right, is ...