The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

String theory suggests that the BIG BANG was not the origin of the universe but simply the outcome of a preexisting state Was the big bang really the beginning of time? Or did the universe exist ...

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

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

The universe’s first molecule just surprised us again. In a discovery that could rewrite our understanding of how the first stars formed, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics ...

Scientists have recreated the first molecule ever to form and found that it likely played a much bigger role in the birth of early stars than previously thought. It then took another 380,000 years for ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.

So much happened in the earliest moments of the universe. Elementary particles appeared, the first nuclei of hydrogen and ...