A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Big Bang theory FAQs answered by an expert We asked Jason Steffens, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a few frequently asked questions about the ...

Hawking passed away in 2018 and Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously. Space and time appear at the Big Bang singularity, so questions of what happens "before" the Big Bang are not well defined.

The Big Bang didn't emerge from a particular location in space, and it wasn't an explosion — at least not in the traditional sense. Popular culture — and cosmologists, begrudgingly — made ...

“Thanks to Einstein, we know that time and space are intertwined and, since the dawn of time in the singularity of the Big Bang, the universe has been expanding,” he added. “This expansion ...

In 1980 Alan Guth, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave the big bang a boost, adding new particle physics to Einstein’s flexible space-time. He realized that for its first ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

Follow its development and take a peek at what's ahead with the Mysteries of Deep Space interactive timeline ... 10^-35 seconds The Big Bang 10^-6 seconds after the Big Bang The Universe Takes ...