The universe is supposed to look the same no matter where you stand. That idea, known as the cosmological principle, sits at the heart of modern astrophysics. It says matter spreads out evenly when ...

"We not only reconstructed an unaltered image of the emissions from deep space, but also obtained valuable information on the ...

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics scientists have been able to disentangle the X-ray glow originating in our solar system from similar emission reaching us from deep space, using data ...