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 ...

Here’s a mind-blowing thought: what if our entire universe is actually inside a black hole? Some scientists think it’s ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole.

The origin of our Universe remains one of the greatest enigmas of science, a question that seems to defy the limits of our ...

Our understanding of the universe begins with the Big Bang, a moment in time where the universe began expanding into what we see around us now. Big Bang nucleosynthesis describes how only the lightest ...

The team explores one of the greatest discoveries of modern astronomy - that our universe is expanding - and the new questions it raises about how the cosmos works. The team explores one of the ...

Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes still reverberate to the present day. It will take the most sensitive instruments ever imagined to reveal ...