Over five years, the highly sensitive telescope was used to observe the "cosmic microwave background radiation ... The images released Tuesday show the oldest light in the universe, with ...

In a major breakthrough for cosmology, scientists have captured an image that reveals the universe’s earliest moments with ...

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

An international research team has analyzed data from 41 million galaxies to estimate the distribution of matter in the ...

The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) has been observing large parts of the southern sky over a period of eight years in order to ...

People talk about the universe starting with ... that to learn more about this background microwave radiation, they would have to go to space. In 1992, the Cosmic Background Explorer showed ...

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

The clearer data and images from ... of light from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). That's the faint microwave glow that fills space. It's the oldest light in the universe and represents ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

A cosmic coincidence has led to one of the ... with a face-on spiral galaxy in the distant background. Image released on March 24, 2025. | Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Nestled within the ...

Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its final orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more ... It charted the positions of nearly two billion stars, providing a ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.