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

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) team has captured the clearest images of the universe in its earliest stages—when it ...

Euclid has two instruments: its visible light camera, VIS, and its near-infrared light camera, NISP. NISP allows Euclid to ...

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...

Three wavelengths of light have been combined together to highlight the Milky Way in purple and the cosmic microwave background in ... Way that is home to the Orion Nebula, shown in the 5-degree ...

a phenomenon known as the cosmic microwave background. That's what these new maps show — and they're clearer than ever before, the researchers say. For example, they're able to see not just how ...

blue and orange shapes show the contrast between more and less radiation in the cosmic microwave background. Some time after the universe burst into existence, according to the Big Bang theory ...