Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

Before the cosmos lit up with stars and galaxies, the universe passed through a dark, silent era. But new findings suggest ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New results suggest that the so-called cosmic “dark ages,” the muted era between the ...

Observations in the past decade have demonstrated that extremely massive supermassive black holes were already in place when the Universe was less than 800 million years old. Supermassive black holes ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the early science results coming in from the James Webb Space Telescope we’re learning more than ever before about the early universe. But it’s not only Webb which is helping scientists to ...

Twinkling like cosmic lighthouses on a shore 13 billion light-years from Earth, quasars are some of the oldest, brightest relics of the early universe that astronomers can detect today. Short for ...

The international University of California, Riverside-led SpARCS collaboration has discovered four of the most distant clusters of galaxies ever found, as they appeared when the universe was only 4 ...