Astronomers find compelling new evidence of the first stars formed after the Big Bang
A faint glow of helium, hanging near one of the earliest known galaxies, may be the clearest sign…
Universe is expanding faster than expected: Scientists struggle to explain cosmic acceleration |
Not only is the Universe expanding, but its expansion is actually happening at a speed higher than was…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Has Detected an Unusual Signal from the Early Universe—Could It Be Home to the First Stars?
A discovery made possible by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have revealed, for the first time, evidence…
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…
Ancient star in Pictor II offers rare glimpse into early universe
Astronomers have identified one of the oldest known stars, PicII-503, in the dwarf galaxy Pictor II, offering new…
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…
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…
New Cosmological Simulations Shed Light on Growth of Black Holes in Early Universe
New state-of-the-art simulations by Maynooth University astronomers show that in the dense, turbulent dawn of the cosmos, ‘light…
Dark Matter’s Earliest Moments May Have Been Far More Extreme Than We Thought
Dark matter map (2021) by the Dark Energy Survey using weak gravitational lensing data set. The mass maps are weighted projections…