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James Webb telescope discovers 2 of the oldest galaxies in the universe
By Brandon Specktor published
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a cosmic 'peanut' and 'fluff ball' that happen to be two of the four oldest galaxies in the known universe.

Many physicists think we live in a multiverse. But they're getting a simple math rule wrong.
By Philip Goff published
Our universe seems to be perfectly suited for life. But anyone who claims that's evidence of a multiverse is falling prey to a logical fallacy.

Dark matter may have its own 'invisible' periodic table of elements
By Paul Sutter published
Dark matter may come in multiple particles and weights, similar to the ordinary elements on the periodic table, a new theory suggests.

James Webb telescope finds an 'extreme' glow coming from 90% of the universe's earliest galaxies
By Ben Turner published
The universe's early galaxies are way brighter than they should be. The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of brightly glowing gas around 90% of primordial galaxies may explain why.

Mysterious 'fossilized' bubble 10,000 times the size of the Milky Way could be a relic from the Big Bang
By Ben Turner published
Astronomers have spotted a gigantic void they believe to be a baryon acoustic oscillation — a relic from when the universe was a fiery plasma soup.

$100,000 Breakthrough physics prize awarded to 3 scientists who study the large scale structure of the universe
By Ben Turner published
Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its most fundamental properties.

13 billion-year-old 'Maisie's galaxy' is one of the oldest objects in the universe, James Webb telescope reveals
By Brandon Specktor published
Born less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, Maisie's galaxy is officially one of the four oldest galaxies ever discovered, a new JWST study reveals.

Giant 'bubbletrons' shaped the forces of the universe moments after the Big Bang, new study suggests
By Paul Sutter published
Meet the 'bubbletrons' — theoretical particle accelerators that may have helped build the universe as we know it.
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