The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have been released, offering a "peek at the cosmos" with an array of ...

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 ...

It’s a big week for astronomers, who have an exciting new dataset to play with courtesy of the Planck Space Observatory, which is currently surveying the skies while orbiting the L2 Lagrangian ...

Astronomical images not only look beautiful, they also provide a wealth of information. What's behind it and what ...

The observatory's primary goal is to ... UK funding for the Planck mission is supplied by the UK Space Agency.

Even though we know it’s there, humans can’t see much of the universe even with the most advanced technology. Some of ghost ...

The first images from the observatory will be published on 23 June 2025 at 17:00 CEST. Researchers from the Max Planck ...

For the first time, astronomers have used a ground-based telescope to observe polarized microwave light from the universe's ...

But data from the Planck space observatory, which mapped the CMB from 2009 to 2013, showed unexpected variations in the microwave radiation. They could be meaningless statistical fluctuations in ...