Standard cosmology — that is, the Big Bang Theory with its early period of exponential growth known as inflation — is the prevailing scientific model for our universe It suggest that he entirety of ...

The mysteries surrounding the origins of the universe have long intrigued scientists and philosophers alike. New research, ...

There is no such thing as a free lunch, some say, but they would be wrong. In fact, the entirety of the universe defies them. According to Stanford physics Professor Andrei Linde, one of the ...

Scientists believe that in the very early universe, everything was incredibly tiny, chaotic, and full of random energy ripples, known as quantum foam. It was a state where spacetime was unstable, and ...

Whether the Universe will 'end' at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic ...

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 ...

A new theory for the origins of dark matter suggests that fast-moving, neutrino-like dark particles could have decoupled from ...

For a half-century, most astrophysicists have accepted the notion that the universe began in a "Big Bang," an unimaginably powerful event in which all the matter and energy in the cosmos expanded ...

The accelerating expansion of the Universe might not be just an unexplained phenomenon — according to a new proposal by theoretical physicists, it could be a fundamental feature woven into the very ...

Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is perhaps understandable that we haven’t yet cracked all its secrets. But there are actually some pretty basic features, ones we used to think we ...

Is the universe 'tuned' to support life, and ultimately us? Physicists Nemanja Kaloper and Alexander Westphal have proposed ways to test this Anthropic principle. (Image of deep star field from the ...

Dark energy is one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. This mysterious force is thought to be accelerating the expansion of the cosmos. But a new study challenges this long-held belief. A team ...