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 ...
A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, could have given rise to cosmic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0, as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope, existed 290 million years after the Big Bang - Copyright KCNA VIA KNS/AFP STR The galaxy JADES ...