Imagine a universe that barely exists—just fractions of a second old, too young to look anything like the cosmos we know ...

For decades, scientists have relied on a popular idea referred to as cosmic inflation to explain how the universe began and why it looks the way it does today. This theory suggests the universe ...

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 ...

“If confirmed, this would have profound implications for the fate of the universe,” said The Guardian. The study raises the ...