The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

The Big Bang theory is supported by the observed expansion of the universe and the cosmic microwave background radiation. The universe's early moments involved a hot, dense state with the formation of ...

A remarkable new study challenges the findings of Nobel Prize-winning research into how our universe has changed over time.

The first 400,000 years after the Big Bang are inaccessible to us by using light; the material that filled the entire cosmos made it opaque. However, neutrinos interact very little with ordinary ...

The Big Bang theory is supported by the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The universe rapidly expanded and cooled after the Big Bang. Light elements like helium and lithium ...

The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously ...

So much happened in the earliest moments of the universe. Elementary particles appeared, the first nuclei of hydrogen and ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. When you look out at the distant Universe, you’re also looking back in ...

A new analysis of ‘cool’ spots in the cosmic microwave background may cast new doubts on a key piece of evidence supporting the big bang theory of how the universe was formed. Two scientists at The ...