As physicists continue their struggle to find and explain the origin of dark matter, the approximately 80% of the matter in ...

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

Physicists have long grappled with the question of why the universe was able to support the evolution of intelligent life.

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

Inflation is now a built-in piece of our standard story of cosmic evolution. But it’s still controversial. In 2014, researchers claimed to have seen ripples from inflation imprinted on the ...

This departure from the conventional understanding prompts a reevaluation of the mechanisms underlying cosmic inflation and the nature of dark energy. Cosmic inflation and the ΛCDM model The ...

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.

Today, the dominant theoretical approach combines string theory, a powerful mathematical framework with no successful physical predictions as yet, and “cosmic inflation” — the idea that ...

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 ...

Today, the dominant theoretical approach combines string theory, a powerful mathematical framework with no successful physical predictions as yet, and “cosmic inflation” – the idea that, at a very ...