Ramón Méndez Galain was a Urguayan theoretical physics professor studying the Big Bang when the president of Uruguay shocked ...

Specifically, the team is looking at the fraction of a second after the Big Bang, which is called Cosmic Inflation, because it is when the entire universe expanded outward from the point of the ...

CHICAGO (CBS)--Tonight on CBS, they'll be saying 'bazinga' for the last time. The Big Bang Theory, one of television's most successful comedies in history, will air its last episode May 16. CBS 2 ...

The Big Bang theory is supported by the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The universe rapidly expanded and cooled after the Big Bang. Light elements like helium and lithium ...

Did the universe really begin with a Big Bang? And if so, is there evidence? Are there planets around other stars? Can they support life? The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to three scientists who ...

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 ...

Luis Álvarez-Gaumé is director of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook, a leading theoretician in string theory, and a former member of CERN, which operates the famed particle ...

In the beginning, there was an infinitely dense, tiny ball of matter. Then, it all went bang, giving rise to the atoms, molecules, stars and galaxies we see today. Or at least, that's what we've been ...

When you're recreating conditions just moments after the Big Bang then you need all the computing muscle you can get. For researchers at the nuclear research lab Cern, home to the world famous Large ...

The expanding Universe, full of galaxies and the complex structure we observe today, arose from a smaller, hotter, denser, more uniform state. But even that initial state had its origins, with cosmic ...

Today's Nobel Prize in physics was evenly split between two discoveries and, thus, unevenly split among the three honored. Typically when this happens, the two discoveries are at least somewhat ...