“Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are.” -George Gamow The Big Bang is one of the greatest, revolutionary ideas...

A multitude of universes split off a single bit of inflating Universe in this diagram. Andrei Linde For most of its history, the idea of a multiverse was the domain of science fiction and some rare speculation from...

The history of the universe starting the with the Big Bang. Image credit: grandunificationtheory.com Observations of the kaboom that built our universe — known as the Big Bang — is better matching up with theory thanks to new work...

We know that at the beginning of the Big Bang, or depending on how you like to think of it, in the moment just before the Big Bang, the universe underwent a very, very rapid expansion, an exponential expansion.  That means that in any given...

This all-sky Fermi view includes only sources with energies greater than 10 GeV. From some of these sources, Fermi’s LAT detects only one gamma-ray photon every four months. Brighter colors indicate brighter gamma-ray sources. Credit:...

Scientists have begun delivery of germanium-76 detectors to an underground laboratory in South Dakota in a team research effort that might explain the puzzling imbalance between matter and antimatter generated by the Big Bang.

(Phys.org) —How much light has been emitted by all galaxies since the cosmos began? After all, every photon (particle of light) from ultraviolet to far infrared wavelengths ever radiated by all galaxies that ever existed throughout cosmic history...

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Catching a glimpse of even regular neutrinos—low-energy particles generated in the atmosphere—is difficult enough, but spotting a "cosmic neutrino" left over from the Big Bang has been downright impossible. That is until this cubic...

ThinkGeek has released “Grumpy Kitty,” a t-shirt design that combines Grumpy Cat with the song “Soft Kitty” performed by Penny and Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory. Unisex and female t-shirts are available to purchase...

Fifteen years ago, a small cabal of researchers took some of the most firmly held notions about how the universe works and turned them on their head. Until then, everyone was sure that the expanding universe was born in an explosive Big Bang and had...

“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” -Douglas Adams Well,...

Los Angeles Times: A recently discovered starburst galaxy has led astronomers to rethink how soon such galaxies could have first started forming after the Big Bang. It had been assumed that starburst galaxies, which crank out hundreds of stars per...

The Big Bang was strange -- and we still don't understand it, said Professor Stephen Hawking in his latest speech. But whatever happened in the first seconds of creation, it didn't take God's help. Our universe did not require the intervention...

In the beginning, there was a righteous bass. So says physicist John Cramer, who has not only found evidence of the sound created during the Big Bang, but has also created a simulation of the low, deep noise emitted as the universe came into...

This composite image shows the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56, also known as the "bullet cluster." This cluster was formed after the collision of two large clusters of galaxies, the most energetic event known in the universe since the Big Bang.

(Phys.org) —At some stage after its birth in the big bang, the universe began to make galaxies. No one knows exactly when, or how, this occurred. For that matter, astronomers do not know how the lineages of our own Milky Way galaxy and its stars...

An animated Whyntie takes a look into the Big Bang theory and how cosmologists and particle physicists explain the universe. [Read more]    

A physicist at the University of Washington remasters the sound that accompanied the origin of the universe 13.8 billion years ago. [Read more]    

Public elementary and high school classes across the US should be teaching students about evolution, climate change, renewable energy and the Big Bang, subjects that some science classes don't currently offer because some people find them...