How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

“If confirmed, this would have profound implications for the fate of the universe,” said The Guardian. The study raises the ...

Physicists have taken the Universe’s temperature, revealing the searing trillion-degree heat of the Big Bang’s first plasma.

The universe’s first molecule just surprised us again. In a discovery that could rewrite our understanding of how the first stars formed, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics ...

A peculiar object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope just 700 million years after the Big Bang could reveal the ...

Astronomers have chased the first stars for decades, squinting at the early universe for any hint of their brief, brilliant ...

Could our universe be expanding then shrinking back into a tiny point, reliving a kind of big bang over and over again? Probably not, according to a mathematical analysis that argues that the laws of ...

About 13.8 billion years ago, the newborn universe was a blazing sea of energy and particles. Within minutes of the Big Bang, conditions had cooled enough for the very first atoms—mostly hydrogen, ...

In the beginning, there was only silence and stillness—no earth, no sky, no stars, no life. From the boundless void (sun ...