This summer, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a breath of fresh air. Normally filled with beams of protons, the 27-km ring was reconfigured to enable its first oxygen–oxygen and neon–neon ...

A record-breaking laser buried in a quiet French lab just outpowered every other beam on Earth — and it’s not even close.

Supermassive black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early universe challenge traditional formation ...

A bold new spinoff promises to redefine The Big Bang Theory's universe, but a major oversight threatens to undermine its lofty ambitions.

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

Neutrino oscillation is weird, but it may be weird in a useful way, because it might allow physicists to probe certain ...

A Belgian priest came up with the Big Bang almost a century ago—but he also wanted to keep science and faith as separate as ...

The reason that teams on multiple telescopes in all different directions could hear this noise is that this annoying sound was actually the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)—radiation left over from ...

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Astronomers theorise that they are early galaxies that existed earlier than 700 million years after the Big Bang.

Ferreira and Alexander Roskill from the University of Oxford's Department of Astrophysics have recently proposed a cold dark matter model that is based on very few parameters yet can accurately ...