A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the Big Bang has always ...

Researchers say a new theory tackling the Big Bang could reshape how physicists think about the earliest moments of cosmic history.

For the last few decades, researchers have been studying what the universe looked like in its first seconds. It is generally ...

The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period of exponential, almost instantaneous cosmic expansion called inflation.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A brouhaha has erupted over the theory of ...