Scientists have taken another step toward understanding dark energy by peering through a cosmic cloud of water vapor billions of light-years away from Earth. Dark energy is the name given to the ...

Using radio telescopes set on a high, windy plateau in the Chilean Andes, a team of Caltech astronomers has obtained the most detailed snapshots yet of the early universe, revealing for the first time ...

Astronomers have found a new and original method for measuring the cosmic microwave background's temperature when the Universe was still in its infancy. They confirm in their new study the early ...

The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the first time, made it ...

What if the Universe were not symmetrical? This idea, which goes against what scientists have long believed, emerges from new studies on large cosmic structures. Instead of being uniform in ...

“for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”. Pictures of a newborn Universe This year the Physics Prize is awarded for work that looks back ...