Artist's concept of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) spacecraft. John Mather shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work with the Cosmic Background Explorer, or COBE. Launched in 1989, ...

Astronomers analyzing 13 years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found an unexpected and as yet unexplained feature outside of our galaxy. An analysis of more than 200,000 ...

The history of the universe in a nutshell, from the Big Bang to now, and on to the future - John Mather will tell the story of how we got here, how the Universe began with a Big Bang, how it could ...

Astrophysicists are poring over new data from Europe’s Planck cosmic background explorer for clues to the period in the early universe known as inflation, when the Big Bang theoretically was followed ...

NASA launched its Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite on 18 November 1989 to “test ideas about the big bang theory of the creation of the Universe”, we reported on 25 November that year.

Astronomers analyzing 13 years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found an unexpected and as yet unexplained feature outside of our galaxy. An analysis of more than 200,000 ...