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He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a ...

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Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.

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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from ...

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

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A new project is collecting thousands of messages destined for the cosmos, coinciding with the anniversary of a landmark ...