For the first time, scientists have captured the clearest and most detailed image of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)—the faint glow of the Big Bang, dating back 380,000 years after the universe ...

It suggests galaxies can form more rapidly after the Big Bang than had previously been thought,” said Gergö Popping, an ESO ...

One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's ...

But within the cooling glow, the first neutral hydrogen atoms were condensing out of the primordial quark-gluon soup. A hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, helium hydride formed the first ...

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 ...