It all started with a Big Bang – and now scientists are on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the birth of the universe.

The universe might have had a "secret life" before the Big Bang, a recent study has proposed ... In an email, he told Live Science. "Weighing more or less the mass of an asteroid, they could ...

"The results we are obtaining are truly unexpected, and all point to a super Eddington-type growth mechanism for black holes.

In the early Universe, long before they should have had time to grow, astronomers have found what they're calling 'red ...

Edwin Hubble, a renowned astronomer, revolutionized our understanding of the universe. He proved the existence of galaxies ...

Cosmic strings could also be detectable in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) – the leftover radiation from the Big Bang ...

A $340,000 National Science Foundation grant will support research led by Cal Poly physics Professor Thomas Gutierrez on neutrinos through the international CUPID (CUORE Upgrade with Particle ...

Theoretical physicist Abhay Ashtekar is famous for having worked on an idea for how space-time itself is generated. So we ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

Since the discovery of the acceleration, theorists have calculated that the universe will continue to expand faster and ...

Three ultra-massive galaxies from the early universe, named "red monsters" show star formation happened faster than believed.

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive ...