Then we can go on turning the clock yet further back, into the truly ancient "Planck epoch" – a period so early in the Universe's history that our best theories of physics break down.

This release is available in German. The Planck satellite is set to eavesdrop with hitherto unsurpassed precision on the echo of the Big Bang, thereby providing a sharp image of the infancy of the ...

Planck’s observations show that the universe was less than ... will be capable of observing this time period as well as going even further back in time to chart the epoch of reionization in full. The ...

The network is the oldest social network yet discovered, according to the Planck Institute ... southern Africa split apart in the Pleistocene epoch, between 70,000 and 350,000 years ago, the ...

Planck scientists like Tauber used tiny fluctuations ... The first estimate of when the epoch of reionization began was provided by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) in 2003.

New analysis of data taken by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Planck spacecraft of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has revealed that the “epoch of reionization” occurred much later ...

cosmologist and manager of the German Planck group located at the Max Planck Institute in Garching. It may never be possible to measure this epoch and so prove the theory of inflation directly.