Measurements of the faint afterglow of the Big Bang (known as the cosmic microwave background) are also important. They do not directly measure dark energy or how it evolves, but they provide clue ...

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Seated in the audience, hundreds of his fellow scientists silently processed that the cosmic chronicle as they had come to know it may need revising. “It’s the most exciting thing that’s ...

Both reports evoked effusive praise from other cosmologists, who simultaneously confessed to a cosmic confusion about what it all meant. “I don’t think much is left standing as far as good ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope, or ACT, measured properties of the Big Bang’s thermal afterglow, known as the cosmic microwave background, with unprecedented sensitivity — particularly in the ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery—water clouds floating in deep space, potentially reshaping our understanding of cosmic water sources and extraterrestrial environments.

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New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's infancy—the earliest cosmic time yet accessible to humans. Measuring ...

Every time you take a sip from your water bottle, you are depositing bacteria inside and over the course of a day these can multiply by the millions. Here's what scientists say you can do about it.