One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's ...

One of the strangest facts in computer science is that it's really hard to generate true random numbers. For a computer, ...

The new images, to be presented at an upcoming meeting of the American Physical Society, date back to when the universe was ...

The new images—of when the cosmos was a mere 380,000 years old—show the "first steps towards making the earliest stars and ...

This is the clearest image yet of the faint afterglow from the Big Bang, known as the cosmic microwave background radiation ...

New insights from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer unprecedented images of the universe at 380,000 years old, revealing ...

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

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 ...

A new analysis of astronomical data suggests unknown physics is at work assisting dark energy in acting almost as ...

The Simons Observatory, a most advanced network of telescopes aimed at mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with unprecedented precision, has reached a major milestone: the Large Aperture ...