New observations with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile reveal the earliest-ever "baby pictures" of our universe, ...

The new images, to be presented at an upcoming meeting of the American Physical Society, date back to when the universe was ...

Caption “Our newly-devised model stretches the galaxy formation time by a several billion years, making the universe 26.7 billion years old, and not 13.7 as previously estimated”. Rajendra ...

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

Our time line stretches from the big bang some 10 to 20 billion years ago to the time 10 100 years in the future when even black holes, the last surviving remnants of the universe as we know it ...

The Hubble constant is one of the most important numbers in cosmology because it tells us how fast the universe is expanding, which can be used to determine the age of the universe and its history. It ...

Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early universe. The surprise finding is ...

Among the most compelling questions is understanding the age of the universe. Estimated to be around 13.8 billion years old, this figure isn't pulled from thin air. Instead, it relies on a variety ...

The universe is ready for its close-up. Breathtaking images of thousands of galaxies taken by a 609-megapixel camera have been released this morning by space officials. The images were taken by ...