Gough’s blowtorch theory and the evolutionary cosmology is, he suggested, “more exciting and attractive right now than the ...

These series of step-like bursts happen so rapidly that they are difficult to observe as these singularities wink in and out ...

A bold new theory suggests the universe didn’t begin with a single Big Bang, but instead unfolds through a series of ...

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery ...

Scientists may have finally found the universe’s missing matter - hidden in invisible hydrogen gas far beyond galaxies.

In cosmology, the solution of the equations of motion toward the past stops abruptly after a finite time, at the Big Bang singularity. Since nothing can be defined at the singularity, there is ...

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short ...

A new idea about cosmic expansion has emerged that might remove the need for dark matter and dark energy altogether.

Astronomers have long struggled with a troubling puzzle: a significant portion of normal matter in the universe appeared to ...

An extremely bold hypothesis proposes transient temporal singularities remove the need for dark matter and dark energy.

A slowly spinning universe could resolve a puzzle in physics known as the Hubble tension, a new model suggests.