For nearly a century, modern cosmology has treated the Big Bang as the opening moment of everything, the instant when space, ...

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 ...

The largest-ever survey of physicists from around the world—released today—shows a distinct lack of consensus across many of ...

The largest-ever survey of physicists from around the world - released today - shows a distinct lack of consensus across many ...

In the mid-20th century, a group of Cambridge physicists proposed a radical idea: the universe has no beginning and no end.

“The first thing we know about the universe is that it’s really, really big,” says cosmologist Michael Turner, who has been contemplating this reality for more than four decades now. “And because the ...

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?

I can accept the apparent violation of the light-speed-limit in the Big Bang theory by picturing there being no space at all before the BB. Before there was nothing, not even space. Then there was ...

The first suggestion of the Big Bang was in 1912. Astronomer Vesto Slipher “conducted a series of observations of spiral galaxies (which were believed to be nebulae) and measured their Doppler ...