It all started with a Big Bang – and now scientists are on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the birth of the universe.

Called Olbers’ paradox, the seemingly simple mystery of the sky’s darkness is something that stumped astronomers for ...

The Universe seems simpler than what current theories imagine. Recent observations, from vast cosmic expanses to the tiniest ...

New research into dark matter suggests it might have originated from a "Dark Big Bang," distinct from the traditional Big ...

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Cosmin Ilie and Richard Casey ’24 have explored an idea put forth by two ...

Three ultramassive galaxies found by the James Webb Space Telescope have astronomers reconsidering how galaxies grew so ...

A shockwave caused by the galaxy NGC 7318b slamming into four other galaxies is akin to a "sonic boom from a jet fighter." ...

Physicist Neil Turok's theory suggests a mirror universe existed before the Big Bang, running backward in time, potentially ...

The universe might have had a "secret life" before the Big Bang, a recent study has proposed. Prior to the Big Bang, researchers say black holes were created as a result of the universe contracting ...

Dark matter has always been one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics. The "Dark Big Bang" theory may have the answer.

Although galaxies appear pretty quickly after the Big Bang, the rate at which they grow was thought too slow for massive galaxies to emerge during the Cosmic Dawn. So, when JWST turned its golden eye ...

Since the discovery of the acceleration, theorists have calculated that the universe will continue to expand faster and ...