Astronomers have released a spectacular new image of the Milky Way, providing a glimpse of our galaxy in unprecedented detail ...
Very early dark energy (vEDE) may have accelerated the universe’s expansion just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, new ...
Rice University researchers have captured the temperature profile of quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot state of matter from ...
Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...
So much happened in the earliest moments of the universe. Elementary particles appeared, the first nuclei of hydrogen and ...
The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period ...
Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...
Asteroids, comets, and clouds contain complex organic molecules that form in space and might have kickstarted life on Earth ...