Magnetic fields thread through galaxies, stretch across cosmic voids, and shape the behavior of charged particles over millions of light-years. Yet their origin remains one of the most stubborn ...

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

Immediately after the Big Bang boomed, the Universe was a trillion-degree ' soup ' of unimaginably dense plasma. In a ...

Scientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international team led by Nikolaus Sulzenauer and Axel Weiß from the Max Planck ...

I asked my friend Julie Ménard how Earth formed. She’s a planetary scientist at Washington State University. She told me it started with the Big Bang. That was nearly 14 billion years ago. “The Big ...

Kaley Cuoco shared some disappointing news about the Big Bang Theory cast when she stopped by the Bravo Clubhouse for Thursday night’s (Feb. 5) episode of Watch What Happens Live. According to the ...

James Webb Space Telescope detects a candidate jellyfish galaxy 5 billion years after the Big Bang, providing insights into ram-pressure stripping and early galaxy evolution.

Editor's note: This article was updated on Jan. 29, 2026. It was originally published in May, 2025, when the related study was released as a preprint. The study has now been peer-reviewed and ...

For the past decade, men’s hair was the domain of skin fades, hard parts, and gravity-defying coifs. Call it the millennial boy-band ‘do, or the retired soccer player’s day-old fade—you know the look.

Big air is a discipline in Olympic snowboarding in which athletes launch off a 140-foot ramp and, while airborne, perform a creative trick before attempting to land cleanly. Riders perform three ...