Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime in motion to the period of newborn atomic nuclei known as primordial ...

Thanks to the lovable geeks on TV’s “The Big Bang Theory,” an Escondido inventor’s decades-old toy is now spinning with new life. On the popular show’s Feb. 16 episode, astrophysicist Raj tried to ...

Imagine a universe that barely exists—just fractions of a second old, too young to look anything like the cosmos we know ...

The galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0, as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope, existed 290 million years after the Big Bang - Copyright KCNA VIA KNS/AFP STR The galaxy JADES ...

Our universe may have been born in a gravitational crunch that formed a very massive black hole—followed by a bounce inside it. The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a ...

In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Humans have many ...

Our common understanding of the universe tells us that all matter and energy were created at the beginning of time during a period of rapid inflation called the Big Bang. However, in 2023, Katherine ...

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

The Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to two Americans whose findings lend support to the big-bang scenario of the universe's origins. The winners are John Mather, 60, who works at NASA's Goddard ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

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The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...