The European Space ... horizontal bar across the bottom of the image. "What makes these structures have these particular shapes is not well understood," ESA's Planck project scientist, Jan Tauber ...

Here’s how it works. After hunting for the earliest clues about the evolution of the universe for more than four years, Europe's Planck Space Observatory has gone dark. Officials with the ...

This image unveiled March 21, 2013, shows the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as observed by the European Space Agency's Planck space observatory. Among the discoveries: The universe is older ...

After hunting for the earliest clues about the evolution of the universe for more than four years, Europe's Planck space observatory has gone dark. Officials with the European Space Agency sent ...

Captured by the European Space Agency Planck satellite, it shows the split second after the Big Bang - and indicates the universe is 80 million years older that scientists had thought. Planck's ...

The Planck space telescope has detected two of the largest structures yet spotted in the universe. The distant structures are clusters of galaxies that are gravitationally bound to each other and ...

The largest space telescope ever launched, called Herschel, took to the skies on Thursday, along with a companion called Planck that will make the most precise measurements yet of the radiation ...

Europe's Planck space telescope has imaged dust in the Milky Way that is spinning at billions of times a second. The dust spins so fast it emits at radio frequencies, which pollutes the light ...

With almost 25 years of development and a cost of 1.8 billion euros, the space telescopes Herschel and Planck are among the largest research projects in Europe's history.