Scientists have been using complicated, hypothetical particles to explain the Big Bang, but this theory posits that a simpler answer might be better.

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

In this video, we explore the origins of the first atom, tracing back to the big bang, where immense energy condensed to form ...

So much happened in the earliest moments of the universe. Elementary particles appeared, the first nuclei of hydrogen and ...

Our humble blue planet came into being with the Big Bang — the sudden expansion of the universe outwards. Now, according to astrophysicists and cosmologists, Earth and all of its celestial siblings ...

Rice University researchers have captured the temperature profile of quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot state of matter from ...

Who Banged the Big Bang! reinterprets the Big Bang theory not only as the birth of the universe but as a profound metaphor ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

For two decades, scientists believed the cosmological constant, known as λ (lambda), was positive. That meant the Universe would keep expanding indefinitely.