How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study published in Physical Review Research hopes to address as a team of ...

We’re not claiming that it’s absolutely going to happen this decade. But there could be a 90% chance that it does." ...

However, this inflation theory postulates that several variables were all involved in making this ... which have locations in Washington and Louisiana. The origin of the universe remains one of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

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 ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first ...

Physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have made a bold prediction: there is a more than 90 percent ...

Through this approach, the research team identified several scenarios that are unlikely under the multiverse framework, including certain flexible grand unified theories and pessimistic estimates of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists make discoveries that could alter theories about the universe's ...

The standard theory, called the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model (ΛCDM), is the prevailing ... the large-scale distribution of galaxies, the expansion history of the universe as measured by Type Ia ...

For generations, astronomers have pondered the origins of globular clusters, which are among the universe’s oldest and ...

Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes still reverberate to the present day. It will take the most sensitive instruments ever imagined to reveal ...