Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward ...

Envision energy trajectories that curve and cross each other. Now envision energy trajectories that are straight lines and do not cross. Now see an explosion of energy at the points where the curved ...

Controversial research suggests the Big Bang may be a myth due to its reliance on the Doppler effect theory. This idea says the universe is neither expanding, nor contracting; instead it is steady, ...

What is the Big Bang? Simply put, it’s our modern understanding of the history and evolution of the universe. It is not, however, a theory of the creation of our cosmos, because we do not understand ...

Astronomer Fred Hoyle supposedly coined the catchy term to ridicule the theory of the Universe’s origins — 75 years on, it’s time to set the record straight. “Words are like harpoons,” UK physicist ...

For decades, one of the biggest questions in cosmology has remained frustratingly out of reach: what, if anything, existed ...

The Conversation U.S. launched its new book club with a bang – talking to mathematician Manil Suri about his nonfiction work “The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math.” Suri, ...