A new recipe of "quadratic gravity" could help to better define the picture of the Big Bang and the singularity that existed ...

We'll cut right to the chase: This video of Stanford Professor Andrei Linde finding out about yesterday's big discovery of "smoking gun" evidence of cosmic inflation (the "first tremors of the big ...

In the earliest moments after the universe was born, everything changed—fast. This rapid expansion, known as cosmic inflation, was theorized to solve problems in the Big Bang model. It explains why ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, could have given rise to cosmic ...

In this video, we explore the Big Bang theory and common misconceptions surrounding it. The Big Bang theory suggests an ...

Physicists have introduced quadratic quantum gravity (QQG), a theoretical extension of Einstein’s general relativity, that could eliminate the Big Bang singularity. This model envisions the universe ...

For decades, scientists have relied on a popular idea referred to as cosmic inflation to explain how the universe began and why it looks the way it does today. This theory suggests 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 A brouhaha has erupted over the theory of ...

We all know that everything kicked off when the Big Bang exploded our universe into reality, right? Well, not necessarily. A ...

A team of scientists proposes a new model of cosmic inflation that reveals how gravity and quantum mechanics may be sufficient to explain how the structure of the cosmos came into being. A team of ...

Update 12:05 p.m. — The team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has announced they've found "The First Direct Evidence of Cosmic Inflation." The scientists say that after three years ...

The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period of exponential, almost instantaneous cosmic expansion called inflation.