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 ...

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It’s unclear whether science as a discipline—and scientists as people—will ever be able to answer some questions definitively ...

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 ...

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

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

Astronomers have puzzled for decades over how massive elliptical galaxies appeared so early in cosmic history. The standard ...

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.

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 ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering on its promise to push the boundaries of the observable universe closer to cosmic dawn with the confirmation of a ...

This is big news for McD’s devotees. McDonald’s is reportedly going big in 2026 with some bold updates to their offerings, including the possibility of a new flagship sandwich. The new Big Arch burger ...

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