We are the Universe trying to understand itself. How, and why, did we come to be? Why does the Universe take the shape it does? To understand our place in the cosmos, we look to what has gone before.

Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: the Big Bang. This describes how the universe was born in a cataclysmic explosion almost 14 billion years ago. In a tiny fraction of ...

left over from the initial explosion of that primordial atom. He became more interested in the philosophical ramifications of his theory, which were many. Others took up the big bang theory ...

This is similar to an explosion, where the bits moving fastest ... provided very strong support for the Big Bang theory, and led to the Big Bang becoming the currently accepted model of the ...

In 1927 Georges Lemaître proposed that the Universe began with an explosion called the Big Bang. Hubble’s research into the red shift of galaxy light showed that the Universe was expanding ...