Researchers have proposed a new model that suggests dark matter originated during the infinitesimally short span before the ...

We live in a universe that is just right for us.” A new paper in JCAP proposes a test for this idea. The Anthropic ...

Cosmic inflation hadn't even begun yet; that had to wait until t + 10⁻³³ seconds, lasting only until t + 10⁻³². During cosmic ...

The claim that the universe was created for us because we exist has often been ridiculed. Now two physicists claim that it ...

NASA and SpaceX are targeting late February 2025 for the launch of the agency's next astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx. Short ...

“The assumption that dark matter and regular matter originated in the same event, the Big Bang, is natural, given its ...

A team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) in the US has proposed a new model, indicating that ...

The more exciting, transformative and revolutionary a science result appears, especially if it comes 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.

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

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 ...