Further, the cosmological processes outlined by the new study could also help the ongoing hunt for dark matter and dark energy, which together make up 95% of the universe but remain invisible to ...

Observing this distant epoch is notoriously difficult, astronomers say. At that time, the universe was filled with a dense ...

In the 1990s, a NASA satellite, the Cosmic Background Explorer, revealed tiny temperature ripples within the cosmic microwaves — fingerprints pointing to what the early universe looked like.