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

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

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 ...

Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

Scientists have recreated the first molecule ever to form and found that it likely played a much bigger role in the birth of early stars than previously thought. It then took another 380,000 years for ...

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

Our Universe was 'pre-heated' in its early moments, according to a new study from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), challenging assumptions it emerged from an ultracold ...

Researchers propose that hydrogen gas from the early Universe emitted detectable radio waves influenced by dark matter.

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