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James Webb Space Telescope finds the faintest galaxy ever detected at the dawn of the universe
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the faintest galaxy ever seen, burning away the pitch-black gloom of the early universe 13 billion years ago.
There may have been a second Big Bang, new research suggests
Within a month of the Big Bang, a second cosmic explosion may have given the universe its invisible dark matter, new research suggests.
The universe might be shaped like a doughnut, not like a pancake, new research suggests
The universe may be flat, but could still be shaped like a doughnut, weird patterns in leftover light from the Big Bang suggest.
Dark energy could lead to a second (and third, and fourth) Big Bang, new research suggests
Scientists have proposed a way that the universe could stop expanding, ending in a 'Big Crunch' that resets space and time as we know it.
James Webb Telescope spots galaxies from the dawn of time that are so massive they 'shouldn't exist'
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted six gigantic galaxies, each roughly the size of our own Milky Way, that formed at a bafflingly fast pace — taking shape just 500 million years after the Big Bang.
The early universe was crammed with stars 10,000 times the size of our sun, new study suggests
When the universe's first stars emerged from the cosmic dark ages, they ballooned to 10,000 times the mass of Earth's sun, new research suggests.
Physicists want to use gravitational waves to 'see' the beginning of time
Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space. Waves that originated in the early universe could carry important information about the phenomena that occurred there.
New map of the universe's matter reveals a possible hole in our understanding of the cosmos
The cosmic web is a gigantic network of crisscrossing celestial superhighways that connects nearly everything in the universe.
