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, ...

Researchers have shown that a discrepancy in a key cosmic measurement in the early universe originates from a subtle ...

For a fraction of a second after the big bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago, most physicists believe, the newborn universe dramatically ballooned in size, jumping from being smaller than a proton to ...

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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 ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, could have given rise to cosmic ...

The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period of exponential, almost instantaneous cosmic expansion called inflation.

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 ...

The mysteries surrounding the origins of the universe have long intrigued scientists and philosophers alike. New research, published in the Living Reviews in Relativity, introduces an innovative ...

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 ...

galaxies — should be bigger than recently reported, according to a new (WMAP) concluded that space is flat, or Euclidian, instead of being curved, said Dr. Richard Lieu, a professor of physics at UAH.