The galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0, as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope, existed 290 million years after the Big Bang - Copyright KCNA VIA KNS/AFP STR The galaxy JADES ...

Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led to the cosmos as we see it today. A new theory suggests gravitational waves ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the driving force behind creation. Their simulations show that gravity and ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when all of space, time, and energy were born from a single infinitely dense ...

The cosmological constant has been a problem in physics since Einstein, but new research may show why it takes the value that ...

A team of scientists proposes a new model of cosmic inflation that reveals how gravity and quantum mechanics may be sufficient to explain how the structure of the cosmos came into being. A team of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A brouhaha has erupted over the theory of ...

Black holes that formed before the Big Bang could still exist today as ‘cosmic fossils’, potentially helping to explain the mysterious dark matter that shapes galaxies across the Universe, according ...

Explore 25 universe mysteries scientists are still scratching their heads over, from dark matter to the Big Bang's secrets.

We all know that everything kicked off when the Big Bang exploded our universe into reality, right? Well, not necessarily. A compelling new theory of the creation of our universe suggests that it may ...