The new images—of when the cosmos was a mere 380,000 years old—show the "first steps towards making the earliest stars and ...

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.

A telescope in Chile has spent years working on by far the most precise map of the earliest visible universe. It now reveals ...

A map of the CMB published by ACT researchers. Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy, the cosmic ...

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...

Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early ...

The final results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer the sharpest, most sensitive view of the early cosmos that ...

A new study suggests that water first appeared in the universe just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang — ...

We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...

Research suggests water molecules formed shortly after the Big Bang, altering theories on early life conditions.