We like to believe we have a pretty good idea of how things work in our universe. However, the truth is that there is still ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

Bill Prady, co-creator of "The Big Bang Theory," revealed why the elevator in the series is broken and why it was never fixed ...

Others took notice and named his theory "big bang." LeMaitre's ideas opened more questions, many of which forced physics and astronomy together: What was that primordial atom like? Why would it ...

The universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous—and highly ...

New research confirms the Universe is expanding faster than theoretical models predict, intensifying the Hubble tension.

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

A combination of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and quantum physics may help explain the ... who is considered the father of the Big Bang theory, was just a “story” and not a ...