Theoretical physicists James Hartle and Stephen Hawking, for example, proposed that rather than having a strict beginning as ...

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early ...

His research focused on spiral galaxies and the direction in which they rotate. Logically, their spin should be evenly ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...

We are the Universe trying to understand itself. How, and why, did we come to be? Why does the Universe take the shape it ...

I've long been fascinated by the fundamental mystery of our universe's origin. In my work, I explore an alternative to the ...

a chunk of space the size of an atom would have exploded into a size far larger than our solar system. It brought our slice of the universe — everything we can see in the night sky — from an ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ... Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more ...