Big Bang
Assembling wide view of the evolving universe
Astronomers have put together the largest and most comprehensive "history book" of galaxies into one single image, using 16 years' worth of observations from...
Dark matter exists, confirms study
Most of the universe is made up of dark energy, a mysterious force that drives the accelerating expansion of the universe. The next largest...
New way to probe primordial universe before the big bang
Most everybody is familiar with the Big Bang — the notion that an impossibly hot, dense universe exploded into the one we know today....
The universe’s first type of molecule is found at last
The first type of molecule that ever formed in the universe has been detected in space for the first time, after decades of searching....
What happened before Big Bang?
The Big Bang hypothesis is a push to clarify what occurred at the very beginning of our universe. Revelations in astronomy and physics have...
Wonderful!! 83 supermassive black holes found in the early universe
Supermassive black holes, found at the centers of galaxies, can be millions or even billions of times more massive than the sun. While they...
NASA now wants to explore the origin of the Universe
In a new mission, NASA has decided to explore the origin of the universe- solving a long term mystery- how our universe evolved and how...
Universe’s stuff keeps changing
The piece of the universe—the components that are the building blocks for all of matter—is consistently changing and regularly evolving, on account of the...
Astronomers discovered pristine, uncontaminated material existing at the beginning of the universe
Astronomers have recently discovered a relic cloud of gas, orphaned next to Big Bang in the distant universe. The discovery of such a rare...
Johns Hopkins scientists may have found one of the universe’s oldest stars
Astronomers at the Johns Hopkins University have discovered what could be one of the universe's oldest stars, a body on the whole made of...
Exploring the birth of the universe with large-format detector arrays
Examining the quantification of the universe rapidly expanded in a burst called “inflation” moments after the Big Bang. To do so, NASA scientists are developing ultra-sensitive...
Astronomers found evidence for stars forming just 250 million years after Big Bang
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have captured the evidence on star formation in the very distant galaxy MACS1149-JD1 suggesting that...