Asking what existed before the Big Bang is often dismissed as meaningless, since traditional physics breaks down when pushed ...

The key test passed by sPHENIX to prove it is ready to measure the properties of quark-gluon plasma is called a "standard ...

He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on gravitational waves, which helped confirm Einstein’s general theory of ...

If the recent discovery of gravitational waves emanating from the early universe holds up under scrutiny, it will illuminate a connection between gravity and quantum mechanics and perhaps, in the ...

So, if the Big Bang wasn’t truly the beginning, what was it? Here’s what the science tells us. Nearby, the stars and galaxies we see look very much like our own.

"The Big Bang could've occurred as a result of just the laws of physics being there," said astrophysicist Alex Filippenko of the University of California, Berkeley.

The Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to two Americans whose findings lend support to the big-bang scenario of the universe's origins. The winners are John Mather, 60, who works at NASA's ...

Of course, before physicists decide to toss out the Big Bang in favor of a bang-bounce cycle, these theoretical predictions will need to survive an onslaught of observation tests.

James Peebles, Michel Mayor, and Didier Queloz share the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries of the universe beyond our solar system.

The Big Bang Theory remains the most convincing and popular estimation on the origin of universe, but that doesn’t mean it’s true. James Peebles, a one-half winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for ...

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