Exactly what happened at the beginning of the universe, 14 billion years ago, is one of the greatest mysteries in physics – there’s no simple way to probe it. That’s because, in its early stages, the ...

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 proposes "universal consciousness" as a fundamental field shaping space, time, matter, and the emergence of ...

When we think of the Big Bang, we think loud, hot, and bright. But was it followed by a colder, darker shadow? Five-sixths of the universe seems to be made up of a mysterious substance called “dark ...

Our understanding of the universe, as advanced as it is, remains riddled with paradoxes and huge question marks. Physicists have come up with some pretty heady ideas to explain them — we’ll get to ...

As time and space only came into existence with the big bang, the question of what happened before it makes no sense to cosmologists. But why did time and space suddenly switch on? And where do the ...

Have you ever heard of cosmic inflation? Or the cosmic microwave background? Explore the fascinating Big Bang Theory as physicists share a new alternative model that shakes up what we know about our ...

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 ...

US scientists Dr John Mather and Professor George Smoot have won the 2006 Nobel prize for physics for finding the background radiation that finally nailed down the Big Bang theory of the origin of the ...