A spacecraft that revealed details of the hidden tapestry of the infant cosmos has had its last hurrah. Since its launch, Planck has helped scientists settle on a detailed, cohesive story of the ...

The highly anticipated update of the analysis of data from the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite starts with a first paper published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, which already holds in store ...

IT seems to have been implied, in recent discussions, that the Stokes-Planck ether theory, while correlating the facts of astronomical aberration and other first order phenomena having to do with the ...

In other ways, though, the new Planck data quashes hopes for bizarre new physics. The findings provide zero evidence for cosmic strings, which might be expected under string theory, and can say almost ...

Tune an FM radio to one of those empty spots between one station and another and out comes the buzz of static that says: Nothing to hear here. But there is something. Deep within the static is an ...

Kelen Tuttle, writer and editor for the Kavli Foundation, contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. From its orbit 930,000 miles above Earth, the Planck satellite spent ...