The phenomenon was named Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, and it’s the only way, as far as anyone knows, that so much helium could have been formed throughout so much of the universe.

The Big Bang is commonly presented as though it were the beginning of everything: space, time, and the origin of matter and energy. From a certain archaic point of view, this makes sense.

If these gravitational waves truly originated in the Big Bang, these waves will have be stretched as the universe expanded and they can tell us about the very beginning of the universe — they ...

Still, the Big Bang theory wouldn’t reign supreme until the 1950s. The fundamental idea behind the theory is that our universe is evolving and changing; it was different in the past, and it will ...

At the recentRoyal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting in Durham, England, groundbreaking new evidence was ...

The Big Bang Theory explains how the universe began with an infinitely hot and dense single point that inflated to form the ever-expanding cosmos we see today.

How did everything begin? It's a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, ...

The strongest evidence for the Big Bang came in 1964 when scientists at the Bell Labs discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

In this video, Professor Brian Cox explains how evidence for the Big Bang can be found by analysing the colour of starlight. Theories about the development of the Universe, ...