There is a signal, born in the earliest days of the cosmos. It’s weak. It’s faint. It can barely register on even the most sensitive of instruments. But it contains a wealth of information ...

Decades later, observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)—the faint radiation left over from the Big ...

Prior to the Big Bang, matter and energy were squeezed into an incredibly dense and chaotic state. The researchers’ model suggests that dark matter might have formed in the universe’s infancy ...

The galaxy marks a transition between the cosmic dark ages and a mysterious ... observed at just 330 million years after the Big Bang. But it's not just its age that makes this galaxy special.

A new discovery by NASA's flagship James Webb Space Telescope has pushed forward the confirmed end date of the so-called "Cosmic Dark Ages" by ... years after the big bang. And from JADES-GS ...

I’ll get to dark matter, but it’s important to know that astronomy has struggled with mysteries before. The Big Bang Theory of cosmology is accepted by most astronomers today. Nearly sixty ...

It wasn’t until 380,000 years after the Big Bang when particles began to combine, allowing light to travel freely and ending the cosmic dark ages. The cooled remnant of the first light that ...

However, some scientists have proposed that gravity will eventually overwhelm dark energy and pull the universe back together in the reversal of the Big Bang. If this were to happen, stars and ...