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The Earth might be near the center of a vast low-density void in space, which could explain one of the cosmos's greatest mysteries.

Scientists Say Earth May Be Trapped Inside a Huge, Strange Void

By Frank Landymore

We're on the verge of decoding a telltale signal emitted when the universe gave birth to the very first stars.

Scientists Working to Decode Signal From Earliest Years of Universe

By Frank Landymore

A researcher from Kansas State University has revived an almost 100-year-old theory to refute that the Big Bang ever happened.

Scientist Disputes That Big Bang Actually Happened

By Victor Tangermann

The Hubble Space Telescope has helped detect something remarkable: the strongest and oldest radio transmission ever recorded.

Hubble Detects Uber-Strong Radio Transmission From Ancient “Blob”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cosmologists are starting to suspect there may have been a second, transformative event like the Big bang that could explain dark matter.

Scientists Say There May Have Been a Second Big Bang

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers suggest the universe may never actually end, but instead lead to future Big Bangs, much like the one that brought our universe into being.

More Big Bangs Could Be Coming Up, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

As detailed in a new paper published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the universe may have begun with a "Big Bounce" — and not a Big Bang.

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Scientists Say Stuff Might Have Been Happening Before the Big Bang

By Victor Tangermann

The James Webb Space Telescope has gotten a photo of the most distant star in the known Universe — and even as a tiny dot, it's a sight to behold.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Catches a Glimpse of the Most Distant Star in the Universe

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to the latest analysis, we could soon be looking at images of the oldest galaxy ever identified, thanks to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb May Have Just Found the Oldest Galaxy Ever Seen

By Victor Tangermann

A physicist argues that the universe may have been expanding for all of eternity rather than having any sort of "beginning" point in time.

Physicist: The Universe Has Likely Been Expanding “Eternally”

By Dan Robitzski

Using the Large Hadron Collider, scientists figured out the primordial goo called quark-gluon plasma created by the Big Bang behaved like liquid water.

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The Early Universe Was a Vast Liquid Ocean, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers are trying to figure out what's behind the largest source of matter and energy in the universe: dark energy.

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Scientists Say New Experiment Will Determine “Fate of the Universe”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Japanese scientists simulated 4,000 entirely new universes to try and understand what happened in the earliest moments of ours.

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Scientists Simulate Thousands of New Universes to Understand How Ours Began

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have discovered an astonishingly Milky Way-like galaxy called SPT0418-47 more than 12 billion light-years away from our own galaxy.

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Astronomers Puzzled By Ancient Milky Way-Like Galaxy 12 Billion Light-Years Away

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that the Big Bang theory could be off: some assumptions about the early unvierse don't match the actual data.

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Another Astronomer Says the Big Bang Might Not Have Happened

By Dan Robitzski

Newly discovered "cocoons" of gaseous carbon around young galaxies could help solve the mystery of how the element spread throughout the universe.

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Strange “Cocoons” Surround These Young Galaxies

By Kristin Houser