The new discovery is the closest scientists have ever come to observing that moment of "cosmic dawn."

"It's very exciting to see our baby stars being born," Keith Bannister, astronomer at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), told CNN.

"(Although) we can't see the stars themselves, we're seeing the effect they have on the gas around them."

The discovery was made at a radio telescope in Western Australia, the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, operated by the CSIRO.

The telescope's remote location in rural Australia, inside a legislated "radio quiet zone," kept interference from other human-made devices to a minimum, CSIRO said in a statement.

In their statement, CSIRO said Bowman and his team have been working to detect the signals for 12 years.

Bannister said there would still need to be additional work done to confirm the findings of Bowman's team but the discovery was still a milestone.

"This is the very beginning of a very long journey. There's been a lot of work to prepare for this point and now its been confirmed, everyone gets excited and more work will happen," Bannister said.

"There's a whole bunch of different times in the universe which are still inaccessible to use with our current telescopes ... there's a lot more to explore."