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 ...
The history of the universe always feels hard to fathom. After the Big Bang, it is believed that the universe was filled with hot gas and light. Eventually, matter started to cool down, and the first ...
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 ...
Physicists have taken the Universe’s temperature, revealing the searing trillion-degree heat of the Big Bang’s first plasma.
A remarkable new study challenges the findings of Nobel Prize-winning research into how our universe has changed over time.