Uh-oh. President Biden is warning that "Armageddon" is closing in, and he's not talking about his administration's economic policies. He's suggesting nutty Vlad Putin may unleash nukes. Now, this is unsettling. Old Joe gets daily intelligence briefings, so is that theory held by the CIA and NSA? Impossible to answer the question, but it is possible. Sorry to overuse the word. Sixty years ago, President Kennedy was…

Quantum cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton winds back the clock to ponder the origin of our universe's origin.

The antenna that discovered a cosmic microwave background coming from all directions in space—a cornerstone in the Big Bang theory—now stares down its own topsy-turvy future. Its owner says the hardware will be preserved, but the fate of the historical site itself is far from assured.

Some scientists think the James Webb Space Telescope calls into question the long-held "fact" of the universe's origin.

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[This is a transcript of the video embedded below. Some of the explanations may not make sense without the animations in the video.] This video is about Roger Penrose's idea for the beginning of the universe and its end, conformal cyclic cosmology, CCC for short. It's a topic that a lot of you have asked for ever since Roger Penrose won the Nobel Prize in 2020. The reason I've put off talking about it is that I…

A rash of recent articles illustrates a longstanding confusion over the famous term.

By studying the geometry of model space-times, researchers offer alternative views of the universe's first moments.

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From the start, The Big Bang Theory has believed that if you throw Sheldon Cooper into a social situation, it's a potential laugh gold mine, and if you have a storyline, that storyline should largely be confined to the episode it's in, even if it's not over when the episode ends. It's also always been fond of bringing…

A tidal wave will engulf the cryptocurrency markets.

Exactly what existed before the birth of our own Universe remains a mystery, but that is not stopping some physicists from trying to figure it out.

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Once the initial blaze of heat dissipated, the constituent particles of atoms were free to bind.

A recent revolutionary assertion has gone viral, claiming that the Big Bang never happened, and that the latest data from the James Webb Space Telescope…

If you ask a scientist where the Universe got its start, "the Big Bang" is the answer you're most likely to get. Our Universe full of stars, galaxies and a cosmic web of large-scale structure, all…

How the cosmic microwave background proves the Big Bang. In the 20th century, many options abounded as to our cosmic origins. Today, only the Big Bang survives, thanks to this critical evidence..

Fortnite's live event "The Big Bang" features Eminem and a tease of a "new beginning" for the game. Here's the live event start time in your time zone.

No. No no no. Just... no. The JWST has truly blown our scientific minds, but it's a pure crackpot idea that the Big Bang is now disproven.