Astronomers have released a new "baby picture" of the universe. The all-sky image draws on nine years' worth of data from a now-retired spacecraft dubbed the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ...

New research has unveiled images of the universe in its infancy—a mere 388,000 after the Big Bang. The snaps of the universe were produced by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration (ACT ...

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?

Nasa has released the most colourful picture of the universe ever made. The space agency created the image by combining data from the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to capture light that ...

About 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe transitioned from ... Effectively, the universe’s baby picture is a CMB map. For decades, satellite ... (also called dark energy) of empty space.

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its 380,000th birthday represent a snapshot of the universe as a newborn.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope will look all the way back to cosmic dawn 400 million years after the Big Bang to discover how the universe fundamentally changed at this crucial point in its history.

NASA is launching two satellites, SPHEREx and PUNCH, on Friday, February 28, to create a panoramic map of the universe and monitor space weather. SPHEREx will help track the origin of life by ...

NASA reveals picture of distant universe taken by James Webb Space Telescope - but why is it a big deal? It's not just a picture of any random bit of space.

After the big bang, electricity and light filled the universe in what's called the epoch of reionization. The James Webb Space Telescope is hunting for more clues to explain this time period.

In the 1900s, Albert Einstein unified the concepts of space and time, giving us a useful new way to picture the universe. At the start of the 20th century, physicists had a problem: The speed of light ...