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 ...

They show the cosmos when it was just 380,000 years old — much like seeing baby pictures of our now middle-aged universe. At ...

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

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...