The universe might have had a "secret life" before the Big Bang, a recent study has proposed. Prior to the Big Bang, ...

Is there a chance that the secrets of our universe are contained in some of its smallest, newest components: the quantum bit, or qubit? In a recent paper exploring the spirit of this question ...

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an ...

The secrets of black holes and dark matter could ... The Big Bang may not have been the beginning of the universe, according to a theory of cosmology that suggests the universe can “bounce ...

A team of astronomers has spotted the most distant merging galactic cores yet, seen as they were when the universe was less than a billion years old. The duo of active galactic centers ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The early universe was a stressful place for galaxies. Globs of tens ...

There are so many stars in the universe—hundreds of billions of them in our galaxy alone, which is, in turn, one of some 125 billion galaxies in the observable universe—that it would be ...

A new paper gives fellow quantum physicists a tool to help explore the geometry of the universe. They say one qubit’s behavior, regardless of its starting position, forms a predictable geometric ...