Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. How can a Big Bang have been the start of the ...

Roughly 14 billion years ago, a tiny pinpoint of extreme heat and density erupted in a grand explosion, leading to the creation of between 100 billion and 2 trillion galaxies, one of them being our ...

About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Published in 1915, and already widely accepted worldwide by ...

The universe may not have begun with the Big Bang as is generally thought but from the collapse of a massive black hole, a new theory suggests. That is to say this model of cosmology explains the ...

Findings from a new study into the cosmic "afterglow" may rewrite the history of the universe, according to researchers. This afterglow—the "cosmic microwave background" (CMB), the relic radiation ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

This article explores how our understanding of the universe has evolved—from the scale of everyday experience down to the ...

Neutrino oscillation is weird, but it may be weird in a useful way, because it might allow physicists to probe certain ...

Antimatter, particles with opposite charge to their matter counterparts, was theoretically predicted and later experimentally confirmed, existing naturally due to charge conservation in particle ...