If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

A telescope in Chile has spent years working on by far the most precise map of the earliest visible universe. It now reveals ...

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

A project to map galaxies across the universe may have spied cracks in the foundation of our understanding of the cosmos.

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's ...

Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that powers the expansion of the universe, may undergo periodic 'violent transitions' ...

The photos show light, dark and the polarization of light—background radiation known as the cosmic microwave background, and details the movement of hydrogen and helium gas at the beginning of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the ...

The universe has been expanding ever since the Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago, and astronomers believe a kind of ...

Three wavelengths of light have been combined together to highlight the Milky Way in purple and the cosmic microwave background in grey. The sky is rotated to highlight the part of the Milky Way ...