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 ...

Seconds after the Big Bang, the Universe exhibited an astonishing simplicity. Observations reveal a spatially flat, radiation ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The Epoch of Reionization — the universe’s last major transition — may have happened earlier than previously thought.