Even more perplexing is the question: if the universe originated from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, did time exist ...

A Belgian priest came up with the Big Bang almost a century ago—but he also wanted to keep science and faith as separate as ...

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 ...

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...

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

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

In a recent paper for the Journal of High Energy Physics, researchers with the sPHENIX Collaboration announced that it had ...

The Big Bang Theory, the hit television show, gives a hilarious yet intriguing peek into the lives of physicists ...

Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of catching ...

A decade in the making, this upgraded detector will explore the properties of the quark-gluon plasma that formed a millionth ...

In a recent experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN produced particles believed to have only existed in the ...

The reason that teams on multiple telescopes in all different directions could hear this noise is that this annoying sound was actually the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)—radiation left over from ...