You may think that time started 13.8 billion years ago at the birth of the universe, but physicists with alternative ...

From one billion to three billion years after the big bang many ... to glow brightly before it disappeared. The light of these "quasars" can be seen across the depths of the universe.

The Big Bang may not have ... formed during a transition from the universe's last contraction to the current expansion phase, which occurred before the Big Bang. If this hypothesis holds, the ...

The universe might have had a "secret life" before the Big Bang, a recent study has proposed. Prior to the Big Bang, researchers say black holes were created as a result of the universe ...

These theories aim to address questions the Big Bang does not fully resolve, keeping the debate about the universe’s origins alive and dynamic. Related: What happened before the Big Bang?

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

People talk about the universe starting with a Big Bang, but how could we possibly know anything about an event that happened billions of years ago – before our planet was even formed?

The 'temperature' of deep space has been measured as around 3K, not absolute zero, due to the afterglow of the Big Bang. This radiation is now used to 'map' the early Universe. The diagram below ...

Neil Turok, renowned cosmologist and Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh, suggests a mirror universe existed before the Big Bang, moving backward in time. This bold ...