"The polarized light of the cosmic microwave background is sensitive to new physics that violates parity symmetry," the team ...

Part of the reason scientists have settled on the Big Bang theory as the best explanation of how the Universe came into being is because of an 'afterglow' it emits – but a new study suggests we may ...

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Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is perhaps understandable that we haven’t yet cracked all its secrets. But there are actually some pretty basic features, ones we used to think we ...

Discrepancies exist between the Hubble constant values derived from cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation measurements (approximately 68 km/s/mpc) and those from supernova observations ...

NEW ORLEANS — Astronomers using a NASA space telescope have discovered a region of the sky with a mysterious concentration of some of the universe's highest-energy radiation. The astronomers were ...