The only other majority opinion pertains to the immediate moments following the big bang. Only 51 percent of physicists ...

Last time, we took a broad look at the history of the universe spanning approximately 13.8 billion years. The universe was ...

Most scientists think that everything that we know and experience began with the Big Bang, 14 billion years ago. But how can ...

Has the universe always looked the way it does today?There are stars, there are galaxies, and there is vast space between them. It feels like it has always been that way, doesn't it?However, what has ...

An international research team has measured the amount of primordial helium produced during the first five minutes after the ...

This article is part of a special package on “Impossible Questions”—scientific quandaries that may never get definitive answers. Read the rest of the collection here. The big bang wasn’t a bang in the ...

Dr. Niayesh Afshordi, professor at the University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute, draws the renormalization group flow for quadratic quantum gravity (University of Waterloo). Waterloo scientists ...

Thomas Mulligan explores how Edgar Allan Poe's 1848 essay Eureka accurately predicted the Big Bang theory and the expansion of the universe decades before modern science.