Unexpected epochs of stillness that punctuate the cosmic timeline could offer a natural explanation for dark matter and many ...

John Ross Bowie is reprising his Big Bang Theory role as Barry Kripke in the upcoming (and somewhat mysterious) spinoff show ...

"The Big Bang Theory" brought us an unforgettable mix of science, friendship, and laughter that we're still talking about 18 ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that may have sparked extraterrestrial life in the very first galaxies.

The Big Bang Theory explains how the universe began. The Big Bang Theory stands as the most widely accepted explanation for the origin of the universe. According to this theory, the universe began ...

they may have unleashed enormous amounts of water that flooded the early universe — and potentially made life possible just millions of years after the Big Bang, new simulations suggest.

Researchers now know that such characteristics are not always found in stars far out in the distant universe. Gravitational lensing has added cosmic twists to the study of stellar details, which were ...

Scolnic, an associate professor of physics at Duke University, explains it as trying to build the Universe's growth chart: we know what size it had at the Big Bang, but how did it get to the size ...

Scolnic, an associate professor of physics at Duke University, explains it as trying to build the universe's growth chart: we know what size it had at the Big Bang, but how did it get to the size ...

an ancient snapshot of the universe's first light contained within microwave static produced just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. As Cepheids get brighter, they pulsate more slowly, enabling ...