The Universe may not have begun with a Big Bang, but instead with a Big Bounce, according to a new theory about how the ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

A remarkable new study challenges the findings of Nobel Prize winning research into how our universe has changed over time.

As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

“If confirmed, this would have profound implications for the fate of the universe,” said The Guardian. The study raises the ...

The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously ...

Evidence now suggests the universe’s expansion has started to slow, not speed up. The findings imply dark energy is weakening ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

Our humble blue planet came into being with the Big Bang — the sudden expansion of the universe outwards. Now, according to astrophysicists and cosmologists, Earth and all of its celestial siblings ...

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 ...