Two of the most ambitious missions ever attempted to unveil the secrets of the darkest, coldest, and oldest parts of the universe got off to successful starts Thursday with the dual launch of the ...

In trying to explain the origins of the Universe scientists have taken a step-by-step approach, and ESA’s Planck is currently at the top of the staircase. Several experiments, both on Earth and in ...

ESA’s Planck space telescope has made the first conclusive detection of a bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters across 10 million light-years of intergalactic space. Planck’s primary ...

Researchers using notional six-dimensional geometries predicted by string theory to map energy distribution in the infant Universe hope Europe's upcoming Planck background energy mapper will give them ...

The Planck mission released a new data catalogue Tuesday from initial maps of the entire sky. The catalogue includes thousands of never-before-seen dusty cocoons where stars are forming and some of ...