When discussing the scale of the universe, we’re immediately faced with an intriguing question: are we tiny beings, or is the ...

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

No one knows what kicked off the Big Bang that eventually allowed the stars to begin forming. Adolf Schaller for STScI, CC BY How can a Big Bang have been the start of the universe, since intense ...

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

Could our universe be expanding then shrinking back into a tiny point, reliving a kind of big bang over and over again? Probably not, according to a mathematical analysis that argues that the laws of ...

A radical new theory suggests our universe didn’t begin with the Big Bang. It bounced out of a black hole inside a much older cosmos. A group of physicists just put forward a theory that could shake ...

We’ve grown up with the idea that the universe will expand forever, meaning the "cosmological constant" is positive. What if it's negative?

It will be a view unlike any other — completely invisible, exceptionally quiet and utterly transformative. Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes ...

The early universe is perhaps one of the biggest mysteries of our time, and while we've come close to unraveling some of those earliest mysteries thanks to advancing tech like the James Webb Space ...

"Challenging long-held assumptions is essential to scientific progress." A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...