The new images—of when the cosmos was a mere 380,000 years old—show the "first steps towards making the earliest stars and galaxies." ...

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

Most people assume that the Big Bang was the beginning of all things, but current scientific models point to another cosmic ...

We are the Universe trying to understand itself. How, and why, did we come to be? Why does the Universe take the shape it does? To understand our place in the cosmos, we look to what has gone before.

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

This has given scientists their best look yet at the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) - the leftover radiation from the Big Bang which fills the entire observable universe. What looks like clouds ...

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

The cooled remnant of the first light that permeated the universe is known as the cosmic microwave background—leftover radiation from the Big Bang that can still be detected in the distant universe.

This is the clearest image yet of the faint afterglow from the Big Bang, known as the cosmic microwave background radiation (half-sky image on the left, closeup on the right). Orange and blue ...