"The Big Bang Theory" has more than its fair share of critics, but even haters have to recognize that the hit ABC sitcom's ...

“The Big Bang” is the idea that the universe began as “just a single point,” then expanded and stretched to grow as large as it is right now—and it is still stretching! This radical new theory on the ...

Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward ...

How did everything begin? It’s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: the Big Bang. This describes how the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — In the beginning, the world was empty and cold. Prior to the Big Bang — yes, before the Big Bang — the universe underwent a breathtaking cosmic expansion, doubling in size at least 80 ...

Two scientists think a double-Big-Bang scenario could explain dark matter and why we haven’t been able to detect it. Reading time 3 minutes When we think of the Big Bang, we think loud, hot, and ...

Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. There are limits to how far back we can see: the earliest galaxies, the ...

The idea that there was a definite beginning to the universe as we know it, at a time we can calculate, is well established in the public imagination. It may therefore come as a shock to be reminded ...

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; another, time. Thirdly, it began the conditions and processes that eventually ...

Thanks to the lovable geeks on TV’s “The Big Bang Theory,” an Escondido inventor’s decades-old toy is now spinning with new life. On the popular show’s Feb. 16 episode, astrophysicist Raj tried to ...