Big Bang

In a recent study, scientists concluded that an exotic form of matter that existed in the very early universe probably flows just like water. Throughout history, people in many places ...

A recent observation has challenged the current theory about the way galaxies formed in the early days of ...

Our Milky Way galaxy has a bit of a look-alike in an unlikely place: the early universe. Astronomers ...

The universe is expanding 9 percent more quickly than expected, telling us there's something we're missing. Could it ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has broke a new record, peering 13.4 billion years into the past to observe ...

A journey to the beginning of the universe lurched forward Monday with a trek over just a few ...

Large disk galaxies, much like our own Milky Way, may have existed in the early days of the ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant swirling disk of gas 10 billion light-years away—a galaxy-in-the-making that is actively being ...

Dr. Robert Lanza, one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people, believes science must recognize the importance of ...

For the first time scientists have observed the dust contents of galaxies as seen just 1 billion years ...

Going faster than the speed of light is impossible, according to Albert Einstein's Special Relativity Theory, yet theoretical ...

Have you ever looked up in the night sky and wondered, "Why is space black?"

From our perspective, time is always moving forward, but according to some theoretical research, it might be possible ...

We believe, though we cannot yet prove, that our multiverse of universes is 11-dimensional. So think of this ...

The recent BICEP2 observations – of swirls in the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background – have been ...

If the Big Bang theory is just a "theory," are there other hypothetical explanations for the origin of ...

Dr. John C. Mather won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics along with George F. Smoot for their ...

Model of the Big Bang theory. (NASA) British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle was skeptical of the idea that our ...

Black holes could be portals to other universes; they may defy Einstein's relativity theory or quantum mechanics; they ...

At the heart of a black hole may be a portal to another universe. This other universe may ...

A team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced Monday that it has found evidence of the rapid ...

Does the universe go through the same cycle of birth, life, and death that we observe on Earth ...

U.S. researchers have captured individual protons and antiprotons to measure their magnetic charge with unprecedented accuracy.

We are always limited by the power of computing, but as computers get bigger and faster, so does ...

The universe may have begun with more of a big freeze than a big bang, according to a ...

Growing galaxies switched from guzzling gas to consuming smaller galaxies about 3 to 5 billion years after the ...