How did everything begin? It's a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: the Big Bang. This describes how the ...
After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...
Cosmic inflation tries to describe one brief but crucial phase in the Big Bang that launched the universe onto its expansion course. Credit: Christine Daniloff / MIT / ESA / Hubble / NASA Many ...
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 ...
Where did the Big Bang take place? Is it now at the center of the universe? Illustration by Islenia Milien Where did the Big Bang take place? Is it now at the center of the universe? Frank Orienter | ...
A cosmic spectacle predicted by Stephen Hawking may be on the horizon as scientists warn of a black hole poised to explode.