In its first attempt to study the direction of the light or the solar wind’s movement, the spacecraft captured color-coded ...

One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's first few hundred thousand years are shrouded in an impenetrable fog.

A massive galaxy cluster, Abell S1063, forms a gravitation lens, revealing the warped light from more distant galaxies dating ...

Such a mission could let researchers peer through all the light there is, all the way back to the universe’s very first light ...

Deciphering the universe’s secrets is partly done through observation, but just as important are solid models of the forces ...

"This shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology," said the reseachers.

They are defects, flaws in space itself. They’re no wider ... further analysis of the cosmic web and detailed images of the cosmic microwave background—the afterglow light pattern generated ...

The image shows the cosmic microwave background radiation visible 380,000 ... how strong the pull of gravity was in different parts of space." Researcher Sigurd Naess of the University of Oslo ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a giant cosmic question mark in space ... But just below them, in the background of the stunning deep-space image, was an object that resembled ...

The cosmic microwave background was first observed half a century ... But a rapid stretching of space-time — inflation — could have accomplished that, even though it would have ended when ...