The earliest galaxies may have scrambled our reading of the Universe. A new study challenges the traditional interpretation ...

For generations, the Big Bang has stood as the definitive origin story of the universe — an explosive moment from which time, ...

and Discovery of Cosmic Background Radiation that provided evidence confirming the Big Bang Theory. The super-sensitive, horn-shaped antenna was instrumental in the experiments that led to this ...

The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides ...

Dark matter may have started as light-like particles that abruptly became heavy—a cosmic twist rooted in spin and ...

Dark matter, though invisible, weighs heavily on how we understand the universe. Its gravity sculpts galaxies, holds clusters ...

Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. Their mathematical models show that dark matter could have ...

Elliptical galaxies are some of the oldest types of galaxies in the universe. They formed relatively quickly after the Big ...

"This shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology," said the reseachers.

Researchers suggest the universe's background radiation has been overestimated, potentially challenging the standard model of ...

This afterglow—the "cosmic microwave background" (CMB), the relic radiation left behind by the Big Bang—has given astronomers insights into the birth of the universe and helped shape the ...