What Came Before The Big Bang?

A new physics paper proposes modifications to Einstein’s theory of relativity that could solve one of the biggest issues ...

An exploration of the Big Bang theory and how people interpret its meaning, combining scientific understanding with ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have uncovered a bold new way to explain how the universe began—one that could ...

According to the team, the new approach can explain how the universe's initial inflation can naturally arise. But it comes ...

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.

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold. Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no ...

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 ...