The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has been gathering data since its launch in 2009, slowly building up a map of the cosmic microwave background radiation -- a distant remnant of the Big ...

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is described as an imperceptible universal glow, representing the 13.8-billion-year-old remnant signature of the cosmos's primordial hot, dense origin.

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 ...

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, ...