If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

The Simons Observatory is one of the most ambitious cosmic observatories on Earth, dedicated to studying the cosmic microwave ...

Rice University researchers have captured the temperature profile of quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot state of matter from ...

Our entire cosmic history is theoretically well-understood, but only because we understand the theory of gravitation that underlies it, and because we know the Universe's present expansion rate and ...

CHICAGO (CBS)--Tonight on CBS, they'll be saying 'bazinga' for the last time. The Big Bang Theory, one of television's most successful comedies in history, will air its last episode May 16. CBS 2 ...

The expanding Universe, full of galaxies and the complex structure we observe today, arose from a smaller, hotter, denser, more uniform state. But even that initial state had its origins, with cosmic ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics today for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe and deepen understanding of ...

Did the universe really begin with a Big Bang? And if so, is there evidence? Are there planets around other stars? Can they support life? The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to three scientists who ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

In the beginning, there was an infinitely dense, tiny ball of matter. Then, it all went bang, giving rise to the atoms, molecules, stars and galaxies we see today. Or at least, that's what we've been ...

Thanks to the lovable geeks on TV’s “The Big Bang Theory,” an Escondido inventor’s decades-old toy is now spinning with new life. On the popular show’s Feb. 16 episode, astrophysicist Raj tried to ...