The data allowed researchers to calculate a more precise estimate of the age of the universe, now thought to be 13.7 billion years old, with only a 120 million year margin of error, said physics ...

TORONTO, ON – NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has transformed the science of cosmology by establishing the age, geometry and contents of the universe with astonishing precision – an ...

PASADENA, Calif.–The Big Bang is widely considered to have obliterated any trace of what came before. Now, astrophysicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) think that their new ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- After nine years of scanning the sky, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission has concluded its observations of the cosmic microwave background, the oldest light ...

Sri Lanka, March 8 -- While many look at the sky and see stars, Prof. Hiranya Peiris sees the history of time itself. As the Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at the University of Cambridge, Peiris is ...