On March 17th, physicists with the BICEP2 experiment announced they had detected the remnant of gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background, the light left over from the big bang.

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the Universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...

The Big Bang wasn't the beginning, after all. Instead, that honor goes to cosmic inflation, and everyone should understand why. When we look out at the Universe today, we see a number of ...

Instead, the start of the hot Big Bang is coincident with the end of a different state: cosmic inflation. Inflation stretches the Universe flat, gives all of space the same initial conditions ...

This discovery started a four-decade long, and still ongoing, search for what happened before the Big Bang. The leading candidate theory is cosmic inflation, which predicts that the primordial ...

Prior to the Big Bang — yes, before the Big Bang — the universe underwent a breathtaking cosmic expansion, doubling in size at least 80 times in a fraction of a second. This rapid inflation, fueled by ...

Prior to the Big Bang — yes, before the Big Bang — the universe underwent a breathtaking cosmic expansion, doubling in size at least 80 times in a fraction of a second. This rapid inflation, fueled by ...