Cosmic Microwave Background

The universe is expanding 9 percent more quickly than expected, telling us there's something we're missing. Could it be a new type of particle?

The recent BICEP2 observations – of swirls in the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background – have been ...

If the Big Bang theory is just a "theory," are there other hypothetical explanations for the origin of ...

Dr. John C. Mather won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics along with George F. Smoot for their ...

Model of the Big Bang theory. (NASA) British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle was skeptical of the idea that our ...

A team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced Monday that it has found evidence of the rapid ...