For now, we just don’t have the answers. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope has provided one of the clearest images of the early universe yet, but it’s not the final word. Next-generation ...

But a global team of researchers says new images published this week show some of the clearest visualizations yet of the universe in its infancy. If our roughly 13 billion-year-old cosmos could be ...

These detailed images of the newborn universe are helping scientists to answer long-standing ... a former Spitzer Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton and a lead author on one of the new papers being ...

For instance, one measure associated with the pictures below—new high-definition ... that these images show to exist in the entire observable universe, which extends almost 50 billion light ...

"We have produced two images of the very early universe from a time long before ... "And it is that one-two punch that determined with incredible precision the standard model of cosmology.

The universe seems stable, but an unlikely shift in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space, could ...

The clearest pictures yet of the newborn cosmos ... million galaxies and quasars better matches a universe where dark energy evolves rather than one where it is static. “If they confirm that ...

New research has unveiled images of the universe in its infancy—a mere 388,000 ... with a less than one percent uncertainty. Their work has not yet gone through peer review, but will be ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes.

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...