Most scientists think that everything that we know and experience began with the Big Bang, 14 billion years ago. But how can ...

The Big Bang still explains an enormous part of the universe’s story, but this video goes straight to the place where that ...

Asking what existed before the Big Bang is often dismissed as meaningless, since traditional physics breaks down when pushed that far back in time. Yet a new paper published in Living Reviews in ...

For decades, scientists have viewed the Big Bang as the starting point of space and time. But research into cosmic inflation—the lightning-fast expansion that likely occurred before the Big Bang ...

How did everything begin? It’s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: the Big Bang. This describes how the ...

I can accept the apparent violation of the light-speed-limit in the Big Bang theory by picturing there being no space at all before the BB. Before there was nothing, not even space. Then there was ...

It is, increasingly, what working physicists are willing to say when pressed. In a 2024 survey of physicists at the “Black ...