Imagine a universe that barely exists—just fractions of a second old, too young to look anything like the cosmos we know ...

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

Physicists have taken the Universe’s temperature, revealing the searing trillion-degree heat of the Big Bang’s first plasma.

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to hear from Kelsey Johnson, professor of astronomy and director of the Echols Scholars Program at the University of Virginia, at ...

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited ...

Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds. For ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It is now thought that water first formed in space only 100 to 200 million years after the Big ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

A handful of extremely massive stars, each heavier than 1,000 Suns, may have sculpted the chemistry of the oldest star ...