Most current models of the Big Bang rely on general relativity along with additional elements that are introduced to make the ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have uncovered a bold new way to explain how the universe began—one that could ...

Primordial magnetic fields may help explain why measurements of the universe’s expansion do not agree. Scientists have long known that the universe is expanding, yet there is still no agreement on how ...

A peer-reviewed paper published in The European Physical Journal C presents a modification to Einstein’s general relativity ...

A new physics paper proposes modifications to Einstein’s theory of relativity that could solve one of the biggest issues ...

Three physicists have proposed a modification to Einstein’s general relativity that, if confirmed, could eliminate the ...

Scientists from the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter institute have discovered a new cosmological model, challenging the traditional understanding of the Big Bang origin. The new ...

I can accept the apparent violation of the light-speed-limit in the Big Bang theory by picturing there being no space at all before the BB. Before there was nothing, not even space. Then there was ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American What do we really know about our universe?

A new program about cosmology will debut at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium during April.