Nobel laureate who mapped temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background.

The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opened its lens last spring, extremely distant yet very bright galaxies immediately ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...

The Big Bang theory is supported by the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The universe rapidly expanded and cooled after the Big Bang. Light elements like helium and lithium ...

A remarkable new study challenges the findings of Nobel Prize-winning research into how our universe has changed over time.

“The first thing we know about the universe is that it’s really, really big,” says cosmologist Michael Turner, who has been contemplating this reality for more than four decades now. “And because the ...

Konstantinos Dimopoulos does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Keio University astronomers measured the universe’s temperature 7 billion years ago at 5.13 K using ALMA data, which ...

Emma Chapman reviews Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper Before the bang That the universe evolved from a "hot Big Bang" is not in question, ...

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POP the kettle on. Sit down and listen closely to the bubbles of water vapour as they expand, collapse and collide. You have just run an experiment simulating the big bang – the very origin of the ...