Astronomers discovered the most primitive star ever
A dim red giant just out of reach of the Milky Way is providing astronomers with an incredibly…
Pristine star reveals the dawn of stars and galaxies in the universe
The spectrum looked almost empty. That was the clue. In the faint light from a red giant star…
Gravitational waves may be responsible for dark matter in the universe
Dark matter is thought to exist everywhere, wrapping around galaxies and helping to shape the largest things in…
Groundbreaking new theory rewrites quantum view of the Big Bang
A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the…
New Research Says the Big Bang May Be Linked to a “Deeper Theory of Gravity,” Challenging Past Ideas
Researchers say a new theory tackling the Big Bang could reshape how physicists think about the earliest moments…
Astrophysicists are close to proving the existence of primordial black holes
On November 12, 2025, a ripple passed through the fabric of spacetime and triggered alarms at three gravitational-wave…
Astronomers built the largest and most accurate 3D map of the ultraviolet universe
The space between galaxies is not empty. In a new map of the early universe, those “blank” stretches…
Astronomers spot ‘jellyfish galaxy’ torn apart 8.5 billion years ago
Long strands of glowing gas stretch behind a distant galaxy, dotted with pockets of newborn stars. The shape…
How did massive elliptical galaxies appear so early after the Big Bang
Four galaxies crowd the center of a collapsing structure 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. Each one…
New Model Of The Early Universe Shows That Black Holes, Boson Stars, And Cannibal Stars May Have Existed Within One Second Of The Big Bang » TwistedSifter
Shutterstock Trying to understand what happened in the past is always a complex task, but when scientists try…
The Baby Universe Really Was a Goopy Soup, Research Suggests
In the moments following the Big Bang, the extreme heat and pressure coerced matter into a goopy mix…
NASA discovers a surprisingly massive galaxy cluster 2 billion years earlier than supposed
ⓘ NASA NASA’s official logo Two powerful NASA observatories looked deeply into a patch of sky and found…