For years, scientists have used a well-established model to explain how the universe evolves. The standard theory, called the ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

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

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

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

SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...

Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.

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Physics has a problem—their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not fit together. Now, Dr. Wolfgang Wieland from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU ...

How did the universe begin? A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at that large question. Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a SpaceX Falcon ...

In an article published in the MIT Physics Annual 2002, Guth wrote that the big bang theory is incomplete: “[T]he theory says nothing about the underlying physics of the primordial bang.

Painting of Leucippus, the ancient Greek philosopher credited with a theory about creation, which some compare to modern Big Bang concepts. Credit: Luca Giordano, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain ...