Nearly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the primordial plasma of the infant universe cooled enough for the first atoms to coalesce, making space for the embedded radiation to soar free. That ...

The Big Bang Theory stands as the most widely accepted explanation for the origin of the universe. According to this theory, the universe began as an infinitely small, hot, and dense point, which ...

Scientists have created a new map of the dark matter in the universe. Using radiation left over from the Big Bang, researchers mapped the gravitational effects of the mysterious substance. The map ...

A recent study by researchers from the Universities of Bonn, Prague, and Nanjing suggests that some of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation—the faint glow left over from the Big Bang—may ...

George Smoot, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...

A new study in published in Physical Review Letters analyzes the most complete set of galaxy clustering data to test the ΛCDM model, revealing discrepancies in the formation of cosmic structures in ...