ESA’s Planck satellite, due to study relic radiation from the Big Bang, is on display for the media tomorrow in Cannes. Images of the spacecraft in all its glory will be published on the web at the ...

The last tests of the Ariane 5 rocket system have been finished, and ESA’s Planck satellite is sitting ready for launch at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. Together with ESA’s Space Telescope ...

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 ...

Images produced by the Planck satellite have revealed an enormous cloud of electrons traveling near the speed of light in the heart of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. These electrons interact with the ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), those years amount to nearly 20—and now the ...

Early data from the Planck space satellite provide information about dust in distant galaxies, as well as in the Milky Way, and on the properties of gas in some of the largest clusters of galaxies in ...