Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The universe’s first molecule just surprised us again. In a discovery that could rewrite our understanding of how the first stars ...

Scientists have recreated the first molecule ever to form and found that it likely played a much bigger role in the birth of early stars than previously thought. The universe was unimaginably hot and ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...