See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The mysteries of a strange era in the universe's history may have been ...

Physicist Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, dubbed the 'next Einstein' but rejecting the title, is leading research at the Perimeter Institute to decode the universe’s ‘source code’ through celestial ...

For hundreds of a millions of years, the universe existed in the dark ages—an epoch when only primordial gasses existed. Then, a period of reionization, cleared away this foggy existence an introduced ...

After its “birth” in the Big Bang, the universe consisted mainly of hydrogen and a few helium atoms. These are the lightest elements in the periodic table. More-or-less all elements heavier than ...