The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at ...
New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early ...
Imagine drifting through space in a place so empty that you wouldn’t see a single star, planet, or galaxy in any direction.
The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...
Galaxy clusters, the largest structures held together by gravity in the universe, may be far heavier than scientists once ...
Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that showcases 5000 galaxies captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. It was ...
What: New analyses using early observations from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission examine how galaxy mergers trigger active galactic nuclei (AGN), luminou ...
Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered galaxies colliding in the early universe, revealing that cosmic structures are far more complicated than astronomers once ...
Leucippus' ancient atomic theory bears striking parallels to the modern Big Bang model showcasing his visionary perspective on cosmic origins ...
This idea is called the big bang model—which is an unfortunate name because it brings to mind a cosmos expanding like an ...
A brief, high-energy signal recorded last year has become a focal point in astrophysics. The event, lasting ten seconds, came ...