For a fraction of a second after the big bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago, most physicists believe, the newborn universe dramatically ballooned in size, jumping from being smaller than a proton to ...

Early Universe could host primordial black holes, cannibal stars and boson stars, offering new insights into dark matter, ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...

When the clock strikes midnight and the world quiets down, a peculiar phenomenon emerges: the late-night Google search.

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 ...

Recent findings suggest a potential shift in our understanding of the universe’s expansion. After decades of acceleration, ...

The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period of exponential, almost instantaneous cosmic expansion called inflation.

Imagine traveling at the speed of light and still being too slow to escape the vastness of space. From the nearest star Proxima Centauri to the Milky Way’s edge, this journey reveals the mind-boggling ...

“Our analysis shows that the solar system is moving more than three times faster than current models predict,” Böhme ...