Astronomers continue to test the Big Bang model, the leading explanation for how the universe began nearly 13.8 billion years ago. But certain observations in modern astronomy are raising difficult ...

Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward ...

The Big Bang is often described as the moment everything began — a point of infinite density where the laws of physics broke down. But what if that picture is incomplete? A new study proposes a ...

What if some of the Universe’s oldest objects are actually older than the Big Bang itself? A new study from the University of ...

I can accept the apparent violation of the light-speed-limit in the Big Bang theory by picturing there being no space at all before the BB. Before there was nothing, not even space. Then there was ...