Researchers at MIT and Harvard have created the most accurate model yet of how our universe formed, and you can watch it right here in the beautiful, trippy video below. “Watching the video i… ...

A trillion years ago, our universe didn’t exist, at least not in any recognizable form. According to the Big Bang theory, ...

What’s important, IMO, is how much we’ve discovered that has revealed just how fine-tuned our universe is, as if by design, allowing stars to form. elements to be manufactured, planets to form ...

The lifetime of the universe is, unfortunately, so long that we can’t just wait and watch what happens to understand how it works. It’s a movie marathon that started billions of years before ...

A mysterious substance rules the present-day universe.New research suggests that it may have been born even before our cosmos as we know it, and that if it does eventually leave the cosmic scene ...

After about 380,000 years, the universe was sufficiently cool for those protons and neutrons to grab free-flying electrons and form the first electrically neutral atoms.

In today’s universe, ... “Gas needs to be cooled down first before water can form,” says Latif. Instead, all this matter spent several million years flying out into the darkness.

The Illustris model is not an exact replica of the universe. It is smaller, for one--about 350 million light-years across. And though the 40,000 galaxies it created share the same properties as ...

Astronomers are closer than ever to working out how the biggest galaxies in the cosmos grew so quickly before dying. The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple path ...