The origin of our Universe remains one of the greatest enigmas of science, a question that seems to defy the limits of our ...

Watch Pop Mech ’s Jackie Appel reveal the story of how two men from New Jersey named Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson made one of the most important discoveries in the history of astronomy—by accident.

A $4 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation enables a team of scholars from USC, the University of California, ...

Modern cosmology suggests that the universe has no single spatial centre or edge. The Big Bang did not occur at one ...

Ferreira and Alexander Roskill from the University of Oxford's Department of Astrophysics have recently proposed a cold dark matter model that is based on very few parameters yet can accurately ...

Our universe may have been born in a gravitational crunch that formed a very massive black hole—followed by a bounce inside it. The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a ...

Our common understanding of the universe tells us that all matter and energy were created at the beginning of time during a period of rapid inflation called the Big Bang. However, in 2023, Katherine ...

Asking what existed before the Big Bang is often dismissed as meaningless, since traditional physics breaks down when pushed ...

At the Max Planck–IAS–NTU Center for Particle Physics, Cosmology, and Geometry researchers from Germany, Taiwan, and the ...

Illuminating the Dark. Mysterious dark matter and neutrinos, formed moments after the Big Bang, are the focus of a new cosmological collaboration between USC, UC Riverside and the Carnegie Science ...