Data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has now given researchers new detailed images of the universe's earliest ...

A new analysis of astronomical data suggests unknown physics is at work assisting dark energy in acting almost as ...

freeing the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Fifty million years or so later, gravity drove the formation of the first luminous objects – stars and black holes – which ended the dark ages and ...

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into ...

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

Cosmic microwave background is a sea of radiation that provides us with evidence for the big bang. When around 1916 Einstein first used general relativity to build a cosmic model, he followed the ...

Scientists have designed a 'cosmic radio' detector which could discover dark matter in 15 years. Published today in Nature, scientists at King's College London, Harvard University, UC Berkley and ...