An astonishing discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope may rewrite our understanding of the Universe’s early years. A ...

A groundbreaking theory suggests that dark matter—the invisible material shaping galaxies—may have formed before the Big Bang ...

People talk about the universe starting with a Big Bang, but how could we possibly ... telescope shows the whole sky filled with a glow, day and night. This glow is called the Cosmic Microwave ...

But if you’re an astronomer seeking a collection of photons that have been streaming toward us since just after the Big Bang, then the ... by inflation generate a faint but distinctive pattern ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This is the clearest image yet of the faint afterglow from the Big Bang, known as the cosmic ...

Catching these faint echoes of the big bang is a major goal of NASA’s next generation of space astronomy missions, a plan the agency has tagged “Beyond Einstein.” Beyond Einstein?

Around the same time, Robert Dicke (1916?997) at nearby Princeton University had been pursuing theories about the big bang. He had elaborated on existing theory to suggest that if there had been a ...

Deep within the static is an extraordinarily faint trace of the defining period in the history of the universe. What you’re almost hearing is a 13.8-billion-year-old signal from the Big Bang.

So far, nobody's been able to see past it to the Big Bang. As it turns out ... cosmic microwave background (CMB). That's the faint microwave glow that fills space. It's the oldest light in ...

There would be no darkness between stars in the night sky and the sky would have a uniform glow with the similar wavelengths of light from stars in any directions. The Big Bang and subsequent ...