Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

"The polarized light of the cosmic microwave background is sensitive to new physics that violates parity symmetry," the team ...

White noise on televisions and radios contained remnants of the Big Bang. When we saw it on screen during a bad reception or when channels were unavailable, we were unknowingly watching our universe's ...

A proposed five-satellite Cosmic Positioning System could measure cosmic distances directly and help address discrepancies in the Hubble constant through solar system–scale triangulation.

Hubble constant. The Hubble constant is crucial in understanding the rate of expansion of the universe and, by extension, estimating the universe’s age. This collaborative effort unites various ...

The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE) went up on a Delta rocket on Nov. 18, 1989, into a polar sun-synchronous ...

UBC scientists have discovered hot gas in a 12-billion-year-old galaxy cluster, shedding light on galaxy clusters in the ...

A physicist challenges the idea of wormholes as space tunnels, proposing they act as time mirrors linking opposite temporal directions.

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

This image provided by the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) illustrates a latest breakthrough in dark ...

Superconducting Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) detectors play a pivotal role in detecting Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, with bandpass filters being an essential component of these systems ...

In this video, we delve into the Big Bang Theory, which explains the origin and expansion of the universe. This theory suggests that about 13.8 billion years ago, all matter and energy were ...