"We report the discovery of one of the most distant galaxies known to date," astrophysicist Joris Witstok told Newsweek.

The galaxy marks a transition between the cosmic dark ages and a mysterious ... observed at just 330 million years after the Big Bang. But it's not just its age that makes this galaxy special.

Primordial black holes could inhabit the modern-day cosmos, making them responsible for the phenomenon of dark matter, ...

This giant disk galaxy existed within the first two billion years after the Big Bang, meaning it formed when the universe was just 15% of its current age ... halo of unseen dark matter.

and dark energy. This explains the existence and pattern of the cosmic microwave background, the lingering echo of the Big Bang, and the distribution of galaxies. These findings also show that the ...

The universe is thought to have experienced a rapid and exponential expansion in a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. After having cooled down sufficiently, there was a period called the cosmic ...

It wasn’t until 380,000 years after the Big Bang when particles began to combine, allowing light to travel freely and ending the cosmic dark ages. The cooled remnant of the first light that ...

Dark energy, the mysterious force thought to ... including looking at the lingering radiation from after the Big Bang, exploding stars called supernovae and how gravity distorts the light of ...

Experts have unveiled the most detailed images yet of the universe’s infancy, capturing light that traveled for more than 13 ...

So far, nobody's been able to see past it to the Big Bang ... energy (also called dark energy) of empty space." ACT's new data also helped scientists refine the age of the universe to a much ...

Over five years, the highly sensitive telescope was used to observe the "cosmic microwave background radiation" that permeates the universe — or "afterglow" light following the Big Bang ...