big bang

To say that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is upending our thoughts about the universe is an understatement. Scientists were shocked when they saw the telescope's first images of the universe's earliest galaxies. The galaxies…

Scientists from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe and the University of Minnesota created a new type of optical element to improve the performance of telescopes studying radiation from the Big Bang.…

A team of researchers from University of Copenhagen delved into what happened to a specific kind of plasma, the first matter ever to be present, during the first microsecond of Big Bang. Approximately 14 billion years ago, the universe…