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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)
According to scientific consensus, the universe began as an extremely dense, hot point and then rapidly expanded and cooled. Subatomic particles formed which then formed atoms and then molecules like hydrogen and helium. Over billions of years, gravity pulled these atoms together to form clouds and then stars and galaxies, including our Milky Way galaxy.
Genesis 1:1 covers the first 9 billion years of our universe in just a few words. The expansion of the universe for the first 9 billion years was obviously not the focus of the narrative in Genesis 1:1. But it is significant that even in these few descriptive words, the order of creation as described by science does follow the order of the words in Genesis – first the heavens and then the earth.