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.

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 ...

Since we cannot assume that we have a special place in the Universe, it suggests that everything is moving away from everything else as you would expect with an explosion.

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 ...

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 ...

Using four telescopes including the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in Pune, astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe since the Big Bang. The blast ...

“Big Cat Bang” features hundreds of “space cats ... influenced by the spirit of the famed artist’s remark, "Art is explosion!" Yanobe began working on the “Ship’s Cat” series ...