We are the Universe trying to understand itself. How, and why, did we come to be? Why does the Universe take the shape it ...

The more exciting, transformative, and revolutionary a science result appears, especially coming out of nowhere, the more ...

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.

Cosmic inflation solves these problems at a stroke. In its earliest instants, the universe expanded faster than light ( light’s speed limit only applies to things within the universe).

These findings were not what most theorists expected. Today, the dominant theoretical approach combines string theory, a powerful mathematical framework with no successful physical predictions as yet, ...

But far from being a dud, the latest results from the BICEP3 experiment at the South Pole have tightened the bounds on models of cosmic inflation, a process that in theory explains several perplexing ...

The big cosmic joke of dark matter is that, although we can’t see it, it apparently makes up the vast majority of all the ...

The Universe seems simpler than what current theories imagine. Recent observations, from vast cosmic expanses to the tiniest ...