In this video, we explore the Big Bang theory and common misconceptions surrounding it. The Big Bang theory suggests an ...

It is due to the English astronomer that we know we are all stardust. Even so, he is remembered more for what he rejected ...

A faint glow of helium, hanging near one of the earliest known galaxies, may be the clearest sign yet that astronomers have ...

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; another, time. Thirdly, it began the conditions and processes that eventually ...

Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae.

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have uncovered a bold new way to explain how the universe began—one that could reshape our understanding of the Big Bang. Instead of relying on ...

According to the team, the new approach can explain how the universe's initial inflation can naturally arise. But it comes with highly unusual "ghosts" that we don't know how to explain.

While smashing lead atoms into each other at extremely high speeds in an effort to mimic the state of the universe just after the Big Bang, physicists working on the ALICE experiment at the Large ...