Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

In 1916, Albert Einstein discovered that his theory of general relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves — ...

While there's no shortage of mysteries surrounding the formation of the universe, scientists may have figured out the answer ...

For decades, scientists suspected this ion played a critical role in cooling the early cosmos, helping the first gas clouds ...

Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the beginning of the universe? The short answer is "no." But the long answer ...

How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study published in Physical Review Research hopes to address as a team of ...

A galaxy in the early universe was rich with oxygen, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how early ...

What if the Big Bang wasn’t truly the beginning? A team of cosmologists is using the power of supercomputers to push past the ...

Scientists have recreated the first molecule ever to form and found that it likely played a much bigger role in the birth of early stars than previously thought. The universe was unimaginably hot ...

In a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to learn more about early ...