Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime in ...

Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain) and the University of Cambridge (UK) have detected lithium (Li) in the ancient star J0023+0307, a main-sequence extremely iron-poor ...

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The Big Bang may not have been alone. The appearance of all the particles and radiation in the universe may have been joined by another Big Bang that flooded our universe with dark matter particles.

Physicists agree that an awful lot went on in the first few seconds after the Big Bang, a lot of it in incomprehensibly tiny units of time. The exact nature of that activity is far more debated, but a ...

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 ...

A team of scientists suggests that a Dark Big Bang may have occurred during the early evolution of the cosmos, according to Interesting Engineering. WASHINGTON - FEBRUARY 10: This image, showing the ...

Author Simon Singh's new book is Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe. The author speculates about what came before the birth of the universe, and what may eventually happen at its end. An Excerpt ...

The newly-measured rate of a key nuclear fusion process from the Big Bang matches the picture of the universe 380,000 years later. In a secluded laboratory buried under a mountain in Italy, physicists ...

In a secluded laboratory buried under a mountain in Italy, physicists have re-created a nuclear reaction that happened between two and three minutes after the Big Bang. Their measurement of the ...