Most people assume that the Big Bang was the beginning of all things, but current scientific models point to another cosmic ...

Photons released in that pulse linger today, visual echoes of the Big Bang redshifted down into the microwave band—now known as the cosmic microwave background. An anisotropic quantity is ...

The cast of "The Big Bang Theory" has its mainstays and plenty of recurring and special guests, all of whom look amazing both on TV and behind-the-scenes.

A new theory challenges the standard model of cosmology, arguing that dark matter and dark energy are not the forces behind cosmic expansion.

And it revealed a strange asymmetry in the background radiation. Astronomers still don’t know what caused this. And while the new pictures don’t challenge the Big Bang theory, they do mean ...

Cosmic microwave background is a sea of radiation ... of the big bang some 13.8 billion years ago. The big bang is now orthodoxy, although without a theory than unifies general relativity with ...

This argument ended when Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson found evidence of cosmic background radiation, which LeMaitre and other theorists had determined would be the residue of the big bang's ...