The origin of our Universe remains one of the greatest enigmas of science, a question that seems to defy the limits of our ...

Research team includes astrophysicists, computer scientists, artists, and philosophers from UC Riverside, USC, and Carnegie ...

Asking what existed before the Big Bang is often dismissed as meaningless, since traditional physics breaks down when pushed that far back in time. Yet a new paper published in Living Reviews in ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found ...

A $4 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation enables a team of scholars from USC, the University of California, ...

An international research collaboration has used advanced computer simulations to investigate how faint radio signals from ...

The cosmic web, which permeates through the known universe, may contain traces of the first magnetic fields created after the Big Bang. Using computer simulations, researchers now believe they can ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Cosmic inflation tries to describe one brief but crucial phase in the Big Bang that launched the universe onto its expansion course. Credit: Christine Daniloff / MIT / ESA / Hubble / NASA Many ...