We'll cut right to the chase: This video of Stanford Professor Andrei Linde finding out about yesterday's big discovery of "smoking gun" evidence of cosmic inflation (the "first tremors of the big ...

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Cosmic inflation tries to describe one brief but crucial phase in the Big Bang that launched the universe onto its expansion course. Many textbooks and science educators have attempted to describe the ...

In this video, Arvin Ash explores the history of the universe from the Big Bang to modern cosmology. Key discoveries include: ...

Scientists believe that in the very early universe, everything was incredibly tiny, chaotic, and full of random energy ripples, known as quantum foam. It was a state where spacetime was unstable, and ...

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 ...

The mysteries surrounding the origins of the universe have long intrigued scientists and philosophers alike. New research, published in the Living Reviews in Relativity, introduces an innovative ...

Alex Vilenkin discussed what lies beyond the cosmic horizon in the fourth-ever Dean's Faculty Forum last night. "Until recently, physicists thought that the answer to this question was quite boring," ...

Is the universe 'tuned' to support life, and ultimately us? Physicists Nemanja Kaloper and Alexander Westphal have proposed ways to test this Anthropic principle. (Image of deep star field from the ...

Update 12:05 p.m. — The team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has announced they've found "The First Direct Evidence of Cosmic Inflation." The scientists say that after three years ...

Great movie that clearly explains how gravitational waves were discovered and their significance to our understanding of the universe In the beginning there was the Big Bang. A quintillionth of a ...

galaxies — should be bigger than recently reported, according to a new (WMAP) concluded that space is flat, or Euclidian, instead of being curved, said Dr. Richard Lieu, a professor of physics at UAH.