It’s unclear whether science as a discipline—and scientists as people—will ever be able to answer some questions definitively ...

Leucippus' ancient atomic theory bears striking parallels to the modern Big Bang model showcasing his visionary perspective on cosmic origins ...

WUWM astronomy contributor Jean Creighton discusses cosmology ahead of "Birth of the Universe" at UWM's Manfred Olson ...

Nobel Prize winners for physics Arno Penzias (left) and Robert W. Wilson stand in front of their microwave radio antenna at Holmdel Bell Labs in New Jersey on Oct. 18, 1978. They won for studies in ...

The Big Bang is a generally accepted theory that explains what happened at the beginning of the universe. While it is generally accepted, it is not at all understood because from what researchers can ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is forcing cosmologists to redraw the schedule of the early cosmos. Structures that were supposed to take hundreds of millions of years to assemble are turning up almost ...

Emma Chapman reviews Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper Before the bang That the universe evolved from a "hot Big Bang" is not in question, ...

COSMOLOGY has come a long way. Once upon a time it was akin to theology, and models in which the universe rested on the back of a giant turtle were as plausible as any other. Now we have a ...