No one knows what kicked off the Big Bang that eventually allowed the stars to begin forming. Adolf Schaller for STScI, CC BY How can a Big Bang have been the start of the universe, since intense ...

For decades, almost every scientist has agreed that the universe began in an enormous explosion known as the Big Bang. But one group of researchers now controversially claims that everything we think ...

New results from looking at the split-second after the Big Bang indicate the universe is 80 million years older than previously thought, but core concepts in physics about the cosmos — how it began, ...

In simple terms, this means the solar system seems to be moving more than three times faster than predictions based on the ...

The origin of the universe is still not clear to humans, as new discoveries have put the Big Bang on the sidelines and other cosmic phenomena have taken place. It is not certain how the universe was ...