How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study published in Physical Review Research hopes to address as a team of ...

(via PBS Space Time) Here’s the story we like to tell about the beginning of the universe. Space is expanding evenly everywhere, but if you rewind that expansion you find that all of space was once ...

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Investigations into the unknowns of space and time -- and abstract questions around early universe cosmology relating to the Big Bang, black holes and universe expansion -- are focal points of ongoing ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

Sometimes, space missions aim to answer the simple, quotidian questions we ask ourselves as we go about our lives: "How did the universe begin? "How did galaxies start to develop?" "Well, how did I ...

Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the beginning of the universe? The short answer is "no." But the long answer ...

How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding problems in astrophysics. Now, researchers have proposed a novel solution: a giant "dust battery" operating ...