A model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could be a population of black holes predating the Big Bang.

We all know that everything kicked off when the Big Bang exploded our universe into reality, right? Well, not necessarily. A ...

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The most realistic picture yet of how galaxies formed and then evolved from the beginning of time has been revealed in a ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than ...

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What if everything scientists ever thought about the universe’s earliest chemical reactions was wrong? Recent tests have turned decades of theory on its head, showing that the first molecular ...

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope built to date. Since it was launched in December 2021 it has provided groundbreaking insights. These include ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles Steinhardt suspects a few pages are missing. Either the universe has been playing ...

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...