What Came Before The Big Bang?

An exploration of the Big Bang theory and how people interpret its meaning, combining scientific understanding with ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have uncovered a bold new way to explain how the universe began—one that could ...

According to the team, the new approach can explain how the universe's initial inflation can naturally arise. But it comes ...

A new physics paper proposes modifications to Einstein’s theory of relativity that could solve one of the biggest issues ...

Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae.

Emma Chapman reviews Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper Before the bang That the universe evolved from a "hot Big Bang" is not in question, ...

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; another, time. Thirdly, it began the conditions and processes that eventually ...