The first generation of stars that were born in the universe are a mystery. We can estimate when they existed and even how ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the beginning of the universe? The short answer is "no." But the long answer ...

CU Boulder Professor Jamie Nagle will discuss the quarks and gluons that formed at the Big Bang in his Distinguished Research Lecture Feb. 6 Ten trillion degrees Fahrenheit is unfathomably hot—more ...

An international team of scientists has unveiled the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever created using the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing nearly 800,000 galaxies stretching back ...

I’ve never been exactly sure of how the universe came to be—big bang boom thang a lang—but I’m certainly glad it shaped out the way it has. If you want to finally understand the beginnings of our ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...