The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the cosmos, plotting out some 15 million celestial objects, could help reveal the ultimate fate of the universe. Astrophysicists know that the universe is ...

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

The furthest black hole featured in the map existed when the universe was only 1.5 billion years old, over 12 billion years ago. The map itself is showcased in a video within the paper ...

The CMB is essentially the fossilised heat of the infant universe, allowing scientists to see the cosmos at its very first observable moment. To capture an image of that extraordinarily faint ...

Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, scientists have assembled the largest three-dimensional map of the universe to date. Earth is at the center in this animation. New data ...

This radiation is now used to 'map' the early Universe. The diagram below is a heat map showing that temperature was not evenly distributed. This is a whole sky Planck space telescope image of the ...

Light cone: SPHEREx features three concentric shields that surround the telescope to protect it from light and heat ... mission to map the distribution of galaxies and study cosmic inflation. The ...