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

A controversial new theory about how the universe began rejects the widely-held belief that it started with the Big Bang. It ...

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 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 ...

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

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.

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

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