The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, which includes researchers from the University of Toronto, recently ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

Astronomers have unveiled stunning new images of the universe in its infancy, offering a glimpse into the earliest moments after the Big Bang. Captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in ...

Additionally, these new images have helped to support the standard cosmological model, our current best theory about the universe's formation, by measuring the speed of the universe's expansion.

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

The images, released today ... force that’s powering an acceleration in the rate of cosmic expansion. So most of the universe’s “stuff” is actually in the form of things for which we ...

The new pictures of this background radiation ... adding a period of accelerated expansion in the early universe or changing fundamental constants of nature. "We have used the CMB as a detector ...

And not only that — the researchers say the new images have helped them measure more precisely the age of the universe (13.8 billion years) and how quickly it's expanding (67-68 kilometers per second ...

The clearest pictures yet of the newborn cosmos strengthen the prevailing model of the universe but deepen a mystery about its expansion rate. Measurements of this rate, known as the Hubble ...

The images and other information released Wednesday ... is creating a cosmic atlas to gain clues about how our ever-expanding universe works and how mysterious forces called dark energy and ...