In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles ...

The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

Astronomers at The University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new cosmic object that is much ...

The early universe has a lot more massive black holes than suspected.

When analyzing early universe data, the Standard Model of Cosmology suggests that the universe should be more “clumpy” that ...

For centuries, humanity has pondered the ultimate fate of the universe. From theories of infinite expansion to the concept of a cosmic “big crunch,” scientists have long sought to understand how the ...

New simulations suggest early black holes grew rapidly through intense feeding, helping explain why massive black holes appeared so soon after the Big Bang ...

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Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the dreams of science fiction enthusiasts when he began to study the limits of ...

Scientists at the Dark Energy Survey have published their most detailed explanation yet of how the universe has expanded over the last six billion ...