A new look at radio maps of the sky shows a pronounced tilt, called a dipole, that astronomers are still unable to explain ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) In the Big Bang Theory, the cosmic microwave background — microwave-range radiation that floats through the entire universe at a steady 2.7 Kelvin — is evidence that a hot ...

Full-Sky Map Of Cosmic Background Radiation, A Full-Sky Map Produced By The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (Wmap) Showing Cosmic Background Radiation, A Very Uniform Glow Of Microwaves Emitted ...

A new study by Rice University physicist Qimiao Si unravels the enigmatic behaviors of quantum critical metals—materials that defy conventional physics at low temperatures. Published in Nature Physics ...

George Smoot, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation” in 2006, has died at home at the age of ...

Leftover light from the young universe has a major flaw, and we don't know how to fix it. It's the cold spot. It's just way too big and way too cold. Astronomers aren't sure what it is, but they ...

Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation from the big bang persists even after a new analysis from radio telescopes ...

The events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that they left an indelible imprint on the fabric of the cosmos. We can detect these scars today by observing the oldest light in the universe.

Electromagnetic radiation, in all its forms, permeates every corner of the Universe, acting as the great messenger of cosmic phenomena. If we could perceive the sky in radio waves, our view would be ...