ESA and the Planck Collaboration . This image unveiled March 21, 2013, shows the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as observed by the European Space Agency's Planck space observatory.

The European Planck Space Observatory revealed the universe is older than thought: 13.82 billion years old. See the role of the Cosmic Microwave Background here.

After hunting for the earliest clues about the evolution of the universe for more than four years, Europe's Planck space observatory has gone dark. Officials with the European Space Agency sent ...

Fuelling operations for the Planck spacecraft have been successfully completed last week. The filling of the propellant tanks with hydrazine liquid was performed in the S5A building at the Centre ...

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The universe is almost perfect, 80 million years older than we thought, and maybe a little bit evil. That's the conclusion of a four-year mission conducted by the European Space Agency's Planck ...

In 2009, the Planck spacecraft began its observations of the cosmos, and the program continued until 2013. Planck was designed to look for anisotropy, or non-uniformity, in the cosmic microwave ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Planck space telescope has been turned off after nearly 4.5 years soaking up the relic radiation from the Big Bang and studying the evolution of stars and ...

Launched in 2009 by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Planck space telescope has spent years soaking up radiation from the furthest most reaches of the universe. One of its major tasks has been ...