In the blink of an eye after the Big Bang, the universe could have birthed strange new stars and black holes.

The Universe may not have begun with a Big Bang, but instead with a Big Bounce, according to a new theory about how the ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...

The Big Bang: The moment when the universe — everything in existence — began. ... Right? Turns out, it's not quite that simple. Today, when scientists talk about the Big Bang, they mean a period of ...

It will be a view unlike any other — completely invisible, exceptionally quiet and utterly transformative. Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes ...

Our understanding of the universe, as advanced as it is, remains riddled with paradoxes and huge question marks. Physicists have come up with some pretty heady ideas to explain them — we’ll get to ...

In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Humans have many ...

It's a question that has vexed scientists for ages: How old is our universe? The question is simple enough, but as the years go by it's become apparent that settling on the answer isn't quite so easy.

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

A team of scientists has proposed a groundbreaking new theory on the Universe's origins, offering a fresh, radical take on the Big Bang's early moments. Unlike the widely accepted inflationary model, ...