The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, which includes researchers from the University of Toronto, recently ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

Astronomers have unveiled stunning new images of the universe in its infancy, offering a glimpse into the earliest moments after the Big Bang. Captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

Additionally, these new images have helped to support the standard cosmological model, our current best theory about the universe's formation, by measuring the speed of the universe's expansion.

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

Astronomers have released the clearest and most detailed images ever of the universe when it was just a baby—only 380,000 ...

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

"Our data indicates that the Universe will expand forever, and at an accelerating rate," said Sehgal, who analyzed data alongside current and former Stony Brook University physics and astronomy ...

The images and other information released Wednesday ... is creating a cosmic atlas to gain clues about how our ever-expanding universe works and how mysterious forces called dark energy and ...