This short is a no-dialog, visual presentation of the Big Bang theory, illustrating the origins of the universe and its ...

While headlines around the world claimed that ancient galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope were "breaking" our understanding of the Big Bang, the truth is much more nuanced — and much ...

For centuries, cartographers have sought to map Earth’s land masses and seas to better understand the world and their place in it. Now, astrophysicists have taken a major step toward doing the same ...

Combining different pieces from Big Bang cosmology could help explain an issue we have today. The Hubble constant, the speed of expansion of our universe, is not observed with consistency. These ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American What do we really know about our universe?

A new finding by the James Webb Space Telescope has only entrenched the mystery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Something is ...

How did everything begin? It’s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: the Big Bang. This describes how the ...

Want to know more about the Big Bang? Here are some of our favourite FAQs concerning the beginning of the Universe.

For most of us, “inflation” is a term that comes up only in conversations about the economy or flat tires. But for many cosmologists, inflation is the ultimate word in understanding how the universe ...

This week, an international team of more than 160 astronomers working with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope released three preprint papers submitted to The Astrophysical Journal unveiling the most ...