Small telescopes in Chile are first on Earth to cut through the cosmic noise, peering back more than 13 billion years to the ...

Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based telescopes. This polarized light scattered by the universe's very first stars over ...

"Using the new common signal, we can determine how much of what we're seeing is cosmic glare from light bouncing off the hood ...

But the universe’s initial moments after the cataclysmic explosion, including how its earliest stars influenced the light we ...

For the first time, astronomers have used a ground-based telescope to observe polarized microwave light from the universe's ...