The Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, is radiation that fills the universe and can be detected in every direction. Microwaves are invisible to the naked eye so they cannot be seen without ...

The earliest galaxies may have scrambled our reading of the Universe. A new study challenges the traditional interpretation of the cosmic microwave background, this fossil light from the Big Bang.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. An illustration of the cosmic radiation background at various redshifts ...

The Cosmic Microwave Background carries with it a record of events throughout the 13.8-billion-year history of the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

New research has unveiled images of the universe in its infancy—a mere 388,000 after the Big Bang. The snaps of the universe were produced by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration (ACT), which ...

George Smoot , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...