A theory to end theories For the first time in the history of physics we therefore have a framework with the capacity to explain every fundamental feature upon which the universe is constructed.

Put simply, around 14 billion years ago, all matter and energy in the universe was ... This expansion was the beginning of time and continues to this day. The Big Bang theory is supported by ...

Similarly, if we did finally have the unified theory, if we did finally have the deep laws of the universe in hand, that in a very real sense would also be a beginning. It would be the beginning ...

Cynthia Chiang is searching for signs of the universe's first light Cynthia Chiang is searching for signs of the universe's first light Big Bang Poured Out "Liquid" Universe, Atom Smasher Hints ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

The accelerating expansion of the Universe, first observed in 1998, remains one of the most profound mysteries in modern ...

It was once thought that disk galaxies such as the Milky Way were relatively rare through cosmic history, and that they only formed after the Universe was already middle aged. “Based on our results ...

Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory, describes emerging ideas about where our universe comes from, what else is out there, and what caused it to exist in the first place.

A combination of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and ... history of our understanding of the universe, starting with Nicolaus Copernicus, who first suggested a sun-centered universe ...

Others then used his theory to build models of an expanding universe. This was the beginning of today’s standard cosmological model, which describes a universe that began in the hot, dense ...