We are the Universe trying to understand itself. How, and why, did we come to be? Why does the Universe take the shape it does? To understand our place in the cosmos, we look to what has gone before.

An international team led by UNIGE shows that red and dead galaxies can be found only 700 million years after the Big Bang, ...

We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...

Scientists today are quite sure about how long our universe has existed: it’s been 13.8 billion years, give or take 59 million years, since the cosmos burst into being via the big bang.