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 ...

The Universe experienced a rapid expansion just after its birth, a phenomenon called cosmic inflation. This brief but intense phase left traces in the structure of spacetime. Scientists are trying to ...

In the earliest moments after the universe was born, everything changed—fast. This rapid expansion, known as cosmic inflation, was theorized to solve problems in the Big Bang model. It explains why ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first ...

Amid simmering anxiety about the future of federally funded science, the U.S. government has quietly withdrawn support for cosmology’s next premier project, an experiment that would have given us the ...

Last year’s reports that the BICEP2 telescope had uncovered evidence for cosmic inflation turned out to be a false alarm, but researchers in the field haven’t given up. Matthew R Francis describes how ...

An artist's impression of how the very early universe (less than one billion years old) might have looked when it went through a voracious onset of star formation, converting primordial hydrogen into ...

The universe has a habit of making us feel spectacularly insignificant, but some discoveries take this to an entirely new […] ...

The results reveal a linguistic divide. Countries in the EU and Asia perform well. France now has the least entrenched inflation of all the countries we looked at. Chapeau bas to them. Japanese ...