The universe's first magnetic fields may have been much weaker than we first imagined — and were roughly equivalent to the strength of the magnetic activity within the human brain, according to a new ...

Our Universe was 'pre-heated' in its early moments, according to a new study from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy ...

Astronomers hunting for evidence of the light from the first stars and galaxies have found that the universe was warm, rather than cold, before it "lit up." ...

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 ...

Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe.

Since its launch in late 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been glimpsing some of the earliest epochs of cosmic time. Its observations have stretched cosmologists' timelines of when ...

How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study published in Physical Review Research hopes to address as a team of ...

The true “informational age” of the cosmos may be 62 billion years, not just the 13.8 billion years of our current expansion.