Astronomers have unveiled one of the most ambitious maps yet of the early universe, revealing a vast "sea of light" between ...

A new three-volume study explores how quantum physics, gravitation and cosmology may be understood within a unified ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of primordial black holes gathering matter to form the first generation of stars.

The discovery made by a large research team challenges the existing models of the universe.

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the ...

New data from the South Pole Telescope indicates that the birth of the first massive galaxies that lit up the early universe was an explosive event, happening faster and ending sooner than suspected.

What if everything scientists ever thought about the universe’s earliest chemical reactions was wrong? Recent tests have turned decades of theory on its head, showing that the first molecular ...

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby star. Also called molecular clouds, these regions of space can be massive, ...

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In ...

Stephen Hawking once argued that perfection does not exist in the universe. Surprisingly, he said our very existence depends ...

(Nanowerk News) An international team that was led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and includes Professor Stijn Wuyts from the University of Bath in the UK has identified three ultra-massive ...