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

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous supernova remnant. The Veil Nebula is roughly 2,400 light-years away in ...

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

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The starburst galaxy NGC 4536, seen here in a photo by the Hubble Space Telescope, has bright ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of black holes, revealing their energy and interactions with surroundings. These images show supermassive black holes at galaxy centers ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, or ACT, collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s infancy – the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans. Measuring light ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope captured the clearest image of the universe just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, revealing ...