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Cosmic Dawn with Nobel Laureate John Mather
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The James Webb Space Telescope is doing something astronomers dreamed about for decades: peering into our universe’s early past, a…

Jun 4, 2025
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The COBE Spacecraft The COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite weighed 5,000 pounds. It was 16 feet long and 28 feet…

Oct 21, 2024
Mission
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COBE’s Top Discoveries COBE was designed to study the origin and dynamics of the universe, including the theory that the…

Aug 15, 2024
Mission
News Archive
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Aug 15, 2024
Mission
NASA’s Fermi Detects Surprise Gamma-Ray Feature Beyond Our Galaxy
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Astronomers analyzing 13 years of data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found an unexpected and as yet unexplained…

Jan 11, 2024
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The Big Bang
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Overview The origin, evolution, and nature of the universe have fascinated and confounded humankind for centuries. New ideas and major…

Jun 9, 2023
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PIPER Infographic

The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) is a NASA scientific balloon mission that has flown at the edge of Earth’s…

Sep 11, 2018
Best Map Ever of the Universe

This map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with the greatest precision yet by ESA’s (European Space…

Mar 21, 2013