The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is primeval radiation emitted shortly after the Big Bang. Regarded as an 'echo' of the Big Bang, CMB fills the universe.

The Cosmic Microwave Background carries with it a record of events throughout the 13.8-billion-year history of the universe. Just as Charles Darwin once used the fossil record to tell the story of ...

The image shows the cosmic microwave background radiation visible 380,000 years after the Big Bang. ACT Collaboration; ESA/Planck Collaboration "Before, we got to see where things were, and now we ...

COSMOLOGISTS called it the axis of evil. Spotted in 2005 in the cosmic microwave background, the all-pervading afterglow of the big bang, the axis was a peculiar alignment of features where we ...

That light—the cosmic microwave background (CMB)—continues to stream through the sky in all directions, broadcasting a snapshot of the early universe that’s picked up by dedicated telescopes ...

Honorary research fellow in Physics and Astronomy and author of "The Cosmic Microwave Background - how it changed our understanding of the Universe", Cardiff University Fifty years ago, Bob Dylan ...

Just when the search for exoplanets looked like the undisputed fashionable field of study for 2010, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is stepping to the forefront of astronomy and cosmology.

The cosmic microwave background was first observed half a century ago, a serendipitous hiss picked up by an antenna in Holmdel, N.J. In the 1990s, a NASA satellite, ...