The Big Bang is often presented as if science has completely solved the beginning of the universe: everything started in one unimaginably hot, dense state, expanded outward and eventually became the ...

We spoke to astrophysicist and Fermilab scientist Professor Dan Hooper, to find out what we currently know about the first ...

Science and Scripture offer very different ways of talking about beginnings. The real question may be less about choosing one and more about what each is actually trying to explain.

Lumina, a large-scale cosmic simulation, models the universe’s first two billion years after the Big Bang. Researchers are ...

Physicists propose a right-handed neutrino could have been a dominant force in the universe right after the Big Bang.

Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in understanding the Universe’s earliest moments, measuring the amount of ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have observed a galaxy with a ring of newborn stars as it appeared 2.1 ...

Scientists have recreated a primordial state of matter from the dawn of the universe by colliding oxygen nuclei at nearly the ...

Millions of miles away from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Nancy Roman Space Telescope are revealing the ...

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has officially ended its mission after more than 20 years, as it approaches a fiery ...

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 ...