One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's ...

The Canadian-built Atacama Cosmology Telescope in the high Chilean desert mountains, which has just given up its final batch ...

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

The gist of the theory is that, back in the day — well, literally at the beginning of time and space, the “big bang” — the ... across large swaths of the sky, scientists hope to discern ...

After five years of staring unblinking at the sky, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has compiled the most detailed map ...

Known as the cosmic microwave background, the microwaves are a relic from a time when the universe was first cooling down ...

creating a 3D map of the entire night sky that glimpses back in time at various points in the universe’s history to fractions of a second after the Big Bang nearly 14 billion years ago.

NASA's newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before - a sweeping look ... drifting into the blackness of space with a blue Earth in the background. The ...

So far, nobody's been able to see past it to the Big Bang. As it turns out ... the polarization of light from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). That's the faint microwave glow that fills ...

Then came the infamous memo in 2002, in which Microsoft's head honcho, Bill Gates, declared security to be the company's top ...

The ruddy glow of Mars, embedded among the background stars of Gemini, appears nearly due north in the early evening sky. Although the ... reside in Canis Major the Big Dog. This constellation ...

People talk about the universe starting with a Big Bang ... shows the whole sky filled with a glow, day and night. This glow is called the Cosmic Microwave Background. This is one of the most ...