Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers has discovered chemical fingerprints from enormous ...

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Scientists studying particle collisions at CERN have captured new evidence of how quarks move through the early universe’s primordial plasma.

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A novel theory suggests that the current expansion rate of the universe is not fixed, but was in fact quite different in the ...

According to a new theory, our universe developed from a “pre-inflationary multiverse” made of particles in quantum ...