This short is a no-dialog, visual presentation of the Big Bang theory, illustrating the origins of the universe and its ...

The Big Bang wasn’t always a sure bet. For several decades in the 20th century, researchers wrestled with interpreting cosmic origins, or if there even was a beginning at all. At the forefront of that ...

Combining different pieces from Big Bang cosmology could help explain an issue we have today. The Hubble constant, the speed of expansion of our universe, is not observed with consistency. These ...

This image represents the evolution of the Universe, starting with the Big Bang. Despite how counterintuitive the Big Bang picture is, and the number of scientific attempts to come up with viable, ...

While headlines around the world claimed that ancient galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope were "breaking" our understanding of the Big Bang, the truth is much more nuanced — and much ...

Want to know more about the Big Bang? Here are some of our favourite FAQs concerning the beginning of the Universe.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American What do we really know about our universe?

I can accept the apparent violation of the light-speed-limit in the Big Bang theory by picturing there being no space at all before the BB. Before there was nothing, not even space. Then there was ...