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 ...

A map of the CMB published by ACT researchers. Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the ...

Learn more about the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the images of the infant universe it captured.

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

Elusive black hole radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking may have influenced the way the universe took shape after the Big ...

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Studying the light from burst stars called supernovae, Riess’s group and another independent team confirmed in 1998 that the farther objects are from us, the faster they’re receding.

For years, scientists have used a well-established model to explain how the universe evolves. The standard theory, called the ...

Could that tell us what the universe was like just after ... Astronomers realised that to learn more about this background microwave radiation, they would have to go to space.

Some time after the universe burst into existence, according to the Big Bang theory, it became filled with microwave radiation that ... giving us an independent check of the cosmological model ...