Sure, they're not your typical baby pictures. 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 ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's infancy—the earliest cosmic time yet accessible to humans. Measuring light ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s infancy — the earliest cosmic time yet accessible to humans. The researchers ...

New findings from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration may have just unveiled the sharpest images of the ...

Editor’s Note (6/23/25): This story has been updated with additional imagery and details. Welcome to a mind-blowing new era of astronomy. The long-awaited Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a cutting-edge new ...

A Stony Brook University professor and a trio of grad students took part in a scientific collaboration that produced the clearest, most precise images of the universe’s infancy, including the latest ...

The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory showed off a breathtaking preview of its capabilities — capturing millions of stars and galaxies light-years from Earth, along with thousands of ...

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first ...

The early universe is perhaps one of the biggest mysteries of our time, and while we've come close to unraveling some of those earliest mysteries thanks to advancing tech like the James Webb Space ...

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters remained largely incomplete. Our telescopes simply haven't been sensitive enough ...

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it won’t be happy. Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collects data ...