Whether the Universe will 'end' at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic ...

Imagine a universe that barely exists—just fractions of a second old, too young to look anything like the cosmos we know ...

Johannes holds an MSci in Neuroscience from King’s College London, where he worked on projects involving Alzheimer’s disease and Fragile X syndrome.

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, these halos may then have collapsed, creating the first black holes, boson ...

This is the light echo of the Big Bang, the first light that freely moved through the universe. This relic is crucial to our ...

"This gives us a new way to rule out certain black hole scenarios for dark matter." New research suggests that primordial black holes created during the Big Bang could have played a major role in ...

The mysteries surrounding the origins of the universe have long intrigued scientists and philosophers alike. New research, ...

"We were surprised that water could actually form so early on — even before the birth of the first galaxies." When did life as we know it first emerge in the universe? We don’t know for sure, but the ...

Scientists have long been interested in the early history of the universe. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped popularize that the Big Bang was a singular point in time — but that's not how many ...

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery birth like the Big Bang, this idea suggests the cosmos has been growing in ...

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 ...