Big Bang

Astronomers have seen a very curious object that they never saw before. They recently captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy named...

The universe has been expanding since the Big Bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago—a proposition first made by the Belgian canon and physicist Georges...

Despite many decades of study, the physical origin of 'dark matter' in the Universe remains elusive. Scientists at the University of York, in a new...

Distant galaxy group driving ancient cosmic makeover.

The light from MAMBO-9 traveled about 13 billion years to reach ALMA’s antennas.

Scientists inch closer than ever to signal from cosmic dawn.

Study presents a direct search for interactions of antimatter with dark matter.

Testing the origin of dark matter by observing the signatures dark matter leaves on the distribution of matter in the universe.

In a new study, scientists announced a new measurement of the Hubble constant using a kind of star known as a red giant and indicated that the expansion rate for the nearby universe is just under 70 kilometers per second per megaparsec (km/sec/Mpc).

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is thought to be leftover radiation from the Big Bang or the time when the universe began. Also known...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured an image of a legacy field, showing 2,65,000 galaxies, each at different stages in their life cycles,...

Astronomers have put together the largest and most comprehensive "history book" of galaxies into one single image, using 16 years' worth of observations from...