Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory, describes emerging ideas about where our universe comes from, what else is out there, and what caused it to exist in the first place.

Leucippus' ancient atomic theory bears striking parallels to the modern Big Bang model showcasing his visionary perspective on cosmic origins ...

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) have proposed a new model to explain the origin of dark matter. It suggests that dark matter originated during the infinitesimally ...

"This process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter clumped together at different epochs." A powerful combination of data from ...

The cosmic web's structure isn't random. It's shaped by dark matter, the mysterious entity that accounts for 85% of all the matter in the universe.Dark matter is heavy and doesn't interact with ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — A bright blip in a distant galaxy may link two mysterious categories of cosmic flares. The event, which astronomers playfully call the Platypus, could also offer a new way ...