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

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

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

Astronomers have unveiled stunning new images of the universe in its infancy, offering a glimpse into the earliest moments ...

The research is part of a long-running effort to map the matter distribution ... affect the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang that's found ...

and the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft study the cosmic microwave background. Missions like the Gaia Project seek to map the three-dimensional structure of the Milky Way and even the ...

"Quipu is actually a prominent structure readily noticeable by eye in a sky map of clusters in ... affect the cosmic ...

New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that the unknown force accelerating the expansion of ...

Findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that dark energy could be evolving over time. If ...

The DESI experiment shocked cosmologists with a hint that dark energy varies over time. Now, with more data, the conclusions hold up.

The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the cosmos, plotting out some 15 million celestial objects, could help reveal the ultimate fate of the universe. Astrophysicists know that the universe is ...

Cosmic rays from outer space and radon gas from rocks and soil, for instance, expose you to radiation. That’s called “background” radiation. Experts use the phrase “effective dose” to ...