A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.
A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma ...
Scientists have been using complicated, hypothetical particles to explain the Big Bang, but this theory posits that a simpler ...
After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...
Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...
For two decades, scientists believed the cosmological constant, known as λ (lambda), was positive. That meant the Universe ...
The Big Bang Theory fans have reason to celebrate as the upcoming spin-off, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, has officially begun production.
Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...
According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...
Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation ...
A new study by physicists predicts that the universe could one day collapse in a reverse Big Bang, offering fresh insight into how it might all end.