Understanding the early universe is a foundational goal in space science. We're driven to understand nature and how it ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

In a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to learn more about early ...

What if the Big Bang wasn’t truly the beginning? A team of cosmologists is using the power of supercomputers to push past 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 ...

Scientists have recreated the first molecule ever to form and found that it likely played a much bigger role in the birth of early stars than previously thought. The universe was unimaginably hot ...