Our galaxy may reside in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic bubble that accelerates local expansion, potentially settling the ...

The "Hubble tension," one of the most frustrating and lingering problems in science, could be solved if Earth and the Milky ...

The Earth might be near the center of a vast low-density void in space, which could explain one of the cosmos's greatest ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if ...

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

New research challenges everything we know about the Big Bang. A new theory has emerged, called the black hole universe, that offers a radically different view of cosmic origins ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

For decades, scientists have viewed the Big Bang as the starting point of space and time. But research into cosmic inflation—the lightning-fast expansion that likely occurred before the Big Bang ...

This result, extended by the late British physicist Stephen Hawking and others, underpins the idea that singularities—like the one at the Big Bang—are unavoidable. The idea helped win Penrose a share ...

New research suggests the Big Bang was not the start of everything (Getty/iStock) The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all?