Many textbooks and science educators have attempted to describe the Big Bang as an explosion of matter that birthed the ...

Just how long has the universe been around? Scientists estimate the universe is 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty ...

Dark matter, an unseen yet influential component of the cosmos, continues to challenge physicists nearly a century after its effects were first noticed. Its gravitational influence, vital for ...

On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

Using the 100-inch Hooker Telescope in California, Hubble noted that the farther a galaxy was from the ... used this premise to publish the first Big Bang-like theory to explain the beginnings ...

One of the biggest mysteries in science – dark energy – doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the ...

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Observatories like the Hubble ... have formed less than 300 million years after the Big Bang, the beginning of our known universe.

As an analogy, consider the shape of our galaxy, the Milky ... exotic shape could, in theory, result from quantum effects that took place during the Big Bang and shaped how the universe ...

According to Freese and Winkler, however, a Dark Big Bang is consistent with the evidence for dark matter – as long as it happened promptly, within about a month of the first Big Bang.

The cosmos began expanding with the Big Bang but then around 10 billion years later it strangely began to accelerate thanks ...

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of reionization. It holds clues to the first stars and galaxies, and perhaps the nature ...