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

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

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at ...

NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, has successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, setting off on a ...

To give us a taste of just how big everything is, the scientists using the eROSITA X-ray telescope have created the largest X-ray map of the universe ever. The map, which is part of the eROSITA ...

This month, a new kind of space telescope is setting out on a two-year mission to create four complete maps of the entire celestial sky that will catalog the origins of the universe and seek out ...

or what sparked the universe to increase in size by a trillion-trillionfold nearly instantaneously after the big bang. The observatory will create a map of the sky in 102 colors of infrared light ...