The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

String theory suggests that the BIG BANG was not the origin of the universe but simply the outcome of a preexisting state Was the big bang really the beginning of time? Or did the universe exist ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from ...

Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the beginning of the universe? The short answer is "no." But the long answer ...

In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Humans have many ...

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

So much happened in the earliest moments of the universe. Elementary particles appeared, the first nuclei of hydrogen and ...