Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

If this new model of the universe is right, there were boson stars and cannibal stars hundreds of millions of years before ...

In the blink of an eye after the Big Bang, the universe could have birthed strange new stars and black holes.

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime in motion to the period of newborn atomic nuclei known as primordial ...

Very early dark energy (vEDE) may have accelerated the universe’s expansion just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, new research suggests.

In this video, we explore the intricacies of the Big Bang theory, examining common misconceptions and presenting a deeper ...

Scientists have pinpointed a “Big Bang” moment in bowel cancer—when cells first evade the immune system. This early immune ...

Quark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that mimics the early cosmos, is the hottest thing ever made on Earth ...