Astronomers Found the Closest Thing Yet to the Universe’s First Stars
The first stars were massive, hot, and bright, forming from primordial clumps of hydrogen and helium. They lived…
New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang
One of the greatest unsolved problems in physics concerns unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity—two equally successful theories…
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…
ATLAS surpasses LEP limits in search for compressed higgsinos
ATLAS sets new limits on the masses of supersymmetric higgsinos, surpassing results set by the Large Electron–Positron (LEP)…
Rather Than Expanding Forever, The Universe May Be Doomed to “Crunch” in 20 Billion Years
Illustration by ZME Science. We’ve been told by science that the universe is expanding relentlessly, driven by a…
New theory argues wormholes are time mirrors, not cosmic tunnels
Theoretical research led by Professor Enrique Gaztañaga of the University of Portsmouth challenges the longstanding scientific belief that…
JWST confirmed the most distant galaxy ever observed at 13.5 billion light years away
With James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA has confirmed its sightings of the farthest known galaxy to date,…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Observes Something Unexpected at the Edge of Cosmic Dawn
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the earliest galaxy ever recorded, originating from only 280 million years…
Researchers show the universe’s primordial ‘soup’ was surprisingly viscous
When the universe first came into existence 13.8 billion years ago, there were no stars, planets, or even…
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…
Physicists Challenge Long-Held Assumptions about Nature of Dark Matter
Dark matter may not have been ‘cold’ in the earliest moments after the Big Bang, as long believed;…