Big Bang

July 21st 2025

Radical New Theory Rewrites the Story of the Earliest Universe

A new theory promises to simplify our approach to the universe's earliest moments, but some cosmologists say further mathematical scrutiny is warranted.

Physics & Chemistry Gayoung Lee

May 24th 2025

Image Reveals the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen, From Just 280 Million Years After the Big Bang

The record-breaking galaxy is revealing secrets about the first stars and their unexpected chemical fingerprints.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

March 20th 2025

A visualization of a 3D map of the universe, with Earth at the center and every dot representing a galaxy.

The Mystery of Dark Energy Just Got Even Deeper

New data suggests the unknown, unobservable force responsible for the universe's expansion may be weakening.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

March 3rd 2025

An artist's impression of a galaxy in the early universe.

Water Existed in the Universe Billions of Years Earlier Than Thought, Astronomers Say

Water was present just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, according to a new study, shaking up the timeline of planetary evolution.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

December 15th 2024

Tiny Black Holes Could Have Left Tunnels Inside Earth’s Rocks

The research team says it’s time to “think outside the box” since nothing else is working.

Space & Spaceflight Margherita Bassi

September 26th 2023

Webb Telescope Data Suggests Ancient Galaxies Were Metal-Poor and Full of Gas

Astronomers believe the earliest galaxies continuously drew in gas from the vast intergalactic medium.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

September 14th 2023

Image: Image NASA, ESA, CSA, Adam G. Riess (JHU, STScI) Image Processing Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

Webb Telescope Data Confirms ‘Hubble Tension’ Is Not Hubble Telescope’s Fault

The newer space observatory found that the rate of the universe’s expansion is still not adding up.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

July 26th 2023

Image: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI) and P. Puxley (National Science Foundation)

Measuring Helium in Distant Galaxies May Give Physicists Insight Into Why the Universe Exists

New helium measurements in distant galaxies could provide solutions to a long-standing cosmology problem, potentially explaining why the universe isn't empty.

Space & Spaceflight Anne-Katherine Burns, The Conversation

June 28th 2023

Decoding Dark Matter and Energy: What You Need to Know About the Euclid Mission Launching This Weekend

Dark matter and dark energy are the focus of this cutting edge space telescope. Here's our primer on this historic mission.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

June 12th 2023

Image: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Simon Lilly (ETH Zurich), Daichi Kashino (Nagoya University), Jorryt Matthee (ETH Zurich), Christina Eilers (MIT), Rob Simcoe (MIT), Rongmon Bordoloi (NCSU), Ruari Mackenzie (ETH Zurich) Image Processing Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Ruari Mackenzie (ETH Zurich)

Webb Telescope Reveals How Light Emerged From the Fog of the Early Universe

Light from the earliest galaxies zapped their surrounding gas, lifting the curtain on the cosmos, according to new research.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

April 12th 2023

New Map of Dark Matter Validates Einstein’s Theory of Gravity

Researchers can "clearly see features of this invisible world that are hundreds of millions of light-years across."

Physics & Chemistry Isaac Schultz

March 7th 2023

New Dark Matter Theory Says a ‘Dark Big Bang’ Created the Hidden Universe

Two scientists think a double-Big-Bang scenario could explain dark matter and why we haven’t been able to detect it.

Physics & Chemistry Joseph Howlett

February 22nd 2023

Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, I. Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology). Image processing: G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute’s Cosmic Dawn Center at the University of Copenhagen)

Webb Telescope Spots Mature Galaxies Strangely Early in the Universe

Six distant dots spotted by Webb are actually massive 13-billion-year-old galaxies.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

February 1st 2023

New Map Shows All the Matter in the Universe

The universe’s stuff is less clumpy than previously thought, according to new research.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

November 17th 2022

Image: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, CSA, Tommaso Treu (UCLA) IMAGE PROCESSING: Zolt G. Levay (STScI)

Webb Telescope Sees Two of the Most Ancient Galaxies Yet

A deeper look through a massive cluster has turned up two galaxies that formed just after the cosmic dawn.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

August 1st 2022

Image: NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University)

Physicists Discover Oldest Dark Matter Yet With Lensed Microwaves

Lensing of the cosmic microwave background indicates 12-billion-year-old galaxies had dark matter.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

November 25th 2021

Surprising Discovery of Two Ancient Galaxies Exposes Our Cloudy View of the Cosmos

Upwards of 10 to 20 percent of the earliest galaxies are hidden by thick blankets of cosmic dust, new research suggests.

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

November 23rd 2021

What We Will Never Know

Science and technology have evolved, but some things may always be beyond human knowledge.

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum

June 11th 2021

Static: Season One’s Creators Open Up About Honoring Milestone’s Legacy

Writer Vita Ayala and artist ChrisCross discuss their new Static: Season One comic with io9, and how it connects to the original Milestone.

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

February 12th 2021

Milestone Returns to DC Comics This Month With a Big New Preview

At DC Fandome last year, we learned the first proper (and long-awaited) details of the return of the legendary Milestone imprint—and it turns out we’re going to be learning a whole lot more in just a few short weeks. This morning DC Comics confirmed that the Milestone Returns one-shot made available during Fandome last year…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Big Bang

Radical New Theory Rewrites the Story of the Earliest Universe

Image Reveals the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen, From Just 280 Million Years After the Big Bang

The Mystery of Dark Energy Just Got Even Deeper

Water Existed in the Universe Billions of Years Earlier Than Thought, Astronomers Say

Tiny Black Holes Could Have Left Tunnels Inside Earth’s Rocks

Webb Telescope Data Suggests Ancient Galaxies Were Metal-Poor and Full of Gas

Webb Telescope Data Confirms ‘Hubble Tension’ Is Not Hubble Telescope’s Fault

Measuring Helium in Distant Galaxies May Give Physicists Insight Into Why the Universe Exists

Decoding Dark Matter and Energy: What You Need to Know About the Euclid Mission Launching This Weekend

Webb Telescope Reveals How Light Emerged From the Fog of the Early Universe

New Map of Dark Matter Validates Einstein’s Theory of Gravity

New Dark Matter Theory Says a ‘Dark Big Bang’ Created the Hidden Universe

Webb Telescope Spots Mature Galaxies Strangely Early in the Universe

New Map Shows All the Matter in the Universe

Webb Telescope Sees Two of the Most Ancient Galaxies Yet

Physicists Discover Oldest Dark Matter Yet With Lensed Microwaves

Surprising Discovery of Two Ancient Galaxies Exposes Our Cloudy View of the Cosmos

What We Will Never Know

Static: Season One’s Creators Open Up About Honoring Milestone’s Legacy

Milestone Returns to DC Comics This Month With a Big New Preview

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