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 ...

No one knows what kicked off the Big Bang that eventually allowed the stars to begin forming. Adolf Schaller for STScI, CC BY How can a Big Bang have been the start of the universe, since intense ...

A Cornell physicist calculated new data from dark energy reviews, indicating the end of the universe within a few billion ...

Scientists have long been interested in the early history of the universe. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped popularize that the Big Bang was a singular point in time — but that's not how many ...

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 ...

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 ...