The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we dive into fascinating ideas from around the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time here. Cosmic inflation ...

For nearly a century, modern cosmology has treated the Big Bang as the opening moment of everything, the instant when space, ...

Cosmic inflation is a popular scenario for the earliest phase in the evolution of the Universe CREDIT A. Ijjas, P.J. Steinhardt and A. Loeb (Scientific American, February 2017) Astrophysicists say ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists believe that in the very early universe, everything was incredibly tiny, chaotic, and full of random energy ripples, ...

For the last few decades, researchers have been studying what the universe looked like in its first seconds. It is generally accepted that the universe expanded exponentially in the first fraction of ...

In this video, we explore the origins of the first atom, tracing back to the big bang, where immense energy condensed to form ...

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Well, around a similar time, the American Physical Society (APS) invited researchers and science enthusiasts to chime in on ...

The cosmos is riddled with evidence that the universe began with an unfathomably rapid expansion — even faster than in traditional Big Bang theories — but scientists don’t know why it happened. A ...

Researchers analyzing pulsar data have found tantalizing hints of ultra-slow gravitational waves. A team from Hirosaki University suggests these signals might carry “beats” — patterns formed by ...

We're often told it is "unscientific" or "meaningless" to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King's College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy ...