This image unveiled March 21, 2013, shows the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as observed by the European Space Agency's Planck space observatory. Among the discoveries: The universe is older than ...

President Bush called today for the United States to return astronauts to the moon in the next decade and then possibly send people to Mars. The president laid out several goals, including finishing ...

The cosmic microwave background can help scientists piece together the history of the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A weak cosmic infrared radiation field that reaches Earth from all directions contains not yet deciphered messages about the evolution of galaxies. Using first observations with the PACS Instrument on ...

Temperature fluctuations on the microwave sky may be expressed as a sum of spherical harmonics, just as music and other sounds may be expressed as a sum of ordinary harmonics. A musical note is the ...

Rain in east Texas set back efforts to collect debris from the space shuttle today. The craft's nosecone recovered yesterday was trucked out of a forest near the town of Hemphill to Louisiana's ...

Windows 11's Spotlight feature is a pretty nice way to jazz up your desktop background with different wallpapers and fun facts when you hover over the image icon. The problem with the current approach ...