This is a full-sky shot of the universe’s long wavelength light courtesy of the European Space Association’s Planck telescope. This image reveals ancient cosmic microwave background radiation and the ...

There is no shortage of ambition packed into the rocket that lifted off from French Guiana at lunchtime on Thursday. The celestial mission carries two space telescopes that aim to unravel the universe ...

Planck is Europe's first mission to study the relic radiation from the Big Bang This artist's impression shows the focal plane unit of the Planck telescope. Planck's instruments will operate at a few ...

Sure, they're not your typical baby pictures. But a global team of researchers says new images published this week show some of the clearest visualizations yet of the universe in its infancy. If our ...

Telescopes from the CLASS project in Chile detect faint microwave signals from the early universe. (Deniz Valle and Jullianna Couto/Johns Hopkins University) (CN) — High in Chile’s Andes Mountains, ...

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is set to become the largest radio telescope on Earth. Scientists of Bielefeld University and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) with international ...

Giant telescopes with primary mirrors of 8 metres in diameter are now common on the ground, but it will take a while before they can jump into space. The first ‘space giant’ to come will be on ESA’s ...