The prevailing Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model, based on the Big Bang and subsequent inflation, faces challenges including the inability to explain the universe's homogeneity and the singularity ...

did a fair job in Annie Hall of summing up how most 20th-century physicists viewed the future of the cosmos. “The universe is expanding. ... Well, the universe is everything, and if it’s expanding, ...

predictions about the next 30 years. Share your thoughts on the future of science at the Science Not Fiction blog. In the conventional picture of the origin of the universe, the Big Bang is the ...

For a half-century, most astrophysicists have accepted the notion that the universe began in a "Big Bang," an unimaginably powerful event in which all the matter and energy in the cosmos expanded ...

Something like 13.8 billion years ago, all energy in the universe was condensed into a single point. Until suddenly it wasn’t. The resulting detonation was the most massive explosion in all of the ...