How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study ...

(via PBS Space Time) Here’s the story we like to tell about the beginning of the universe. Space is expanding evenly everywhere, but if you rewind that expansion you find that all of space was once ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...

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Watch Pop Mech ’s Jackie Appel reveal the story of how two men from New Jersey named Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson made one of the most important discoveries in the history of astronomy—by accident.

Investigations into the unknowns of space and time -- and abstract questions around early universe cosmology relating to the Big Bang, black holes and universe expansion -- are focal points of ongoing ...

In fact, scientists think that the Big Bang did not happen at a single location in space. It occurred everywhere at once.

How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding problems in astrophysics. Now, researchers have proposed a novel solution: a giant "dust battery" operating ...

Sometimes, space missions aim to answer the simple, quotidian questions we ask ourselves as we go about our lives: "How did the universe begin? "How did galaxies start to develop?" "Well, how did I ...

Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the beginning of the universe? The short answer is "no." But the long answer ...