Dark matter is an essential element of galaxy formation and physics, according to the standard theory of how the universe formed, but a new study suggests that might not be the case.

The early universe To understand the nature of the current tension and its possible solutions, it is important to understand how structure in the universe formed and subsequently evolved. Much of our ...

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first ...

While there's no shortage of mysteries surrounding the formation of the universe, scientists may have figured out the answer to one of the oldest ones.

The early universe To understand the nature of the current tension and its possible solutions, it is important to understand how structure in the universe formed and subsequently evolved.

Scientists have discovered a giant black hole that they believe may have been formed in the first few microseconds after the ...

The standard cosmological model known as Lambda-CDM (ΛCDM) proposes that dark energy is a constant force in the universe. However, an early “hint” in a new detailed map from the Dark Energy ...

Astrophysicists find the birth sites of gigantic elliptical galaxies which they say gives new clues about how they were formed. The galaxies look like bulging footballs and how they were created ...