Since its launch in 2001, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission has revolutionized our view of the universe, establishing a cosmological model that explains a widely diverse ...

It’s easy to forget that until recently cosmology was largely a theoretical science. Thanks in particular to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which was launched by NASA in 2001 to ...

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A team of researchers who helped shape our understanding of the origin, evolution and nature of the cosmos is now $3 million richer. Those folks worked on NASA's WMAP space mission, which was awarded ...

This week, NASA revealed five years' worth of collected data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). The WMAP probe looked at what used to be the light emitted during the early years of ...

WASHINGTON – NASA released this week five years of data collected by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) that refines our understanding of the universe and its development. It is a ...

About 18 months ago, we discussed a mysterious “dark flow” that was seen in early releases of the data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data. At that time, we remarked that it was little ...

Astronomers have released a new "baby picture" of the universe. The all-sky image draws on nine years' worth of data from a now-retired spacecraft dubbed the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is the reconstructed full-scale ...

Scientists on Thursday announced new evidence supporting the theory that the infant universe expanded from subatomic to astronomical size in a fraction of a second after its birth. The finding is ...

It's been more than 50 years since humanity discovered a uniform bath of low-energy, microwave radiation originating from all regions of the sky. It doesn't come from the Earth, the Sun, or even the ...