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

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made a groundbreaking discovery that could validate long-held assumptions about the early universe. The discovery, detailed in a recent ...

A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...