Fossil from the Big Bang discovered

A relic cloud of gas, orphaned after the Big Bang, has been discovered in the distant universe by astronomers using the world's most powerful optical telescope, the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii.

Largest galaxy proto-supercluster found

Astronomers have discovered a titanic structure in the early universe, just two billion years after the Big Bang - a galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion.

Star formation underway 250 million years after Big Bang

Astronomers have observed a galaxy 13.3 billion light years away that includes stars that must have been shining just 250 million years after the Big Bang.

A New 3D Map of the Early Universe Reveals 4,000 Infant Galaxies

Astronomers from Lancaster University have modeled conditions during the earliest moments of the cosmos.

Simple telescope picks up hint of the Universe’s first stars, dark matter

A small team of researchers announced that its correspondingly small telescope picked up a signal produced by the very first stars in our Universe.

The most distant supermassive black hole ever observed

This black hole resides in a luminous quasar and its light reaches us from when the Universe was only 5 percent of its current age — just 690 million years after the Big Bang.

One of the oldest objects in the universe observed

Astronomers report that they have detected the second most distant dusty, star-forming galaxy ever found in the universe -- born in the first one billion years after the Big Bang. It is the oldest object ever detected by the LMT.

A New Theory Explains Three Dimensions Of Observable Universe

Physicists have a new scenario of the universe's expansion at the Big Bang that may explain why our universe has three large spatial dimensions.

Magnetic Field 5 Billion Light-Years Away Offers Insight Into Our Universe

The most distant galactic magnetic field that has ever been observed provides intriguing clues about the evolution of magnetism in the unfolding universe.

New Calculation Could Spell Trouble For a Popular Theory of the Universe's Origin

When running Hawking and Hartles’ as well as Vilenkin’s, math, the new team didn’t get the teeny quantum fluctuations required to create today’s universe.

New study suggests Jupiter’s formation divided Solar System in two

A new study suggests that the early Solar System was quickly divided in two, with the rapidly forming Jupiter creating the dividing line.

Low-mass stars like our sun are born with a sibling

Did our sun have a twin when it was born 4.5 billion years ago? Almost certainly yes -- though not an identical twin.

Discovery nearly doubles known quasars from the ancient universe

New work from a team led by Carnegie’s Eduardo Bañados has discovered 63 new quasars from when the universe was only a billion years old.

Gravitational lensing reveals faintest galaxy yet

Astronomers have used gravitational lensing to detect an incredibly faint early-universe galaxy 13 billion light years away.

Quasars slowed star formation, new research shows: Study finding first observed evidence of galactic-wind phenomenon

Research has found new persuasive evidence that could help solve a longstanding mystery in astrophysics: why did the pace of star formation in the universe slow down some 11 billion years ago?