Even more perplexing is the question: if the universe originated from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, did time exist ...

Asking what existed before the Big Bang is often dismissed as meaningless, since traditional physics breaks down when pushed ...

This summer, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a breath of fresh air. Normally filled with beams of protons, the 27-km ring was reconfigured to enable its first oxygen–oxygen and neon–neon ...

Research team includes astrophysicists, computer scientists, artists, and philosophers from UC Riverside, USC, and Carnegie ...

The reason that teams on multiple telescopes in all different directions could hear this noise is that this annoying sound was actually the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)—radiation left over from ...

In a recent experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN produced particles believed to have only existed in the ...

Neutrino oscillation is weird, but it may be weird in a useful way, because it might allow physicists to probe certain ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to two Americans whose findings lend support to the big-bang scenario of the universe's origins. The winners are John Mather, 60, who works at NASA's Goddard ...

Watch Pop Mech ’s Jackie Appel reveal the story of how two men from New Jersey named Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson made one of the most important discoveries in the history of astronomy—by accident.

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole.

Thanks to the lovable geeks on TV’s “The Big Bang Theory,” an Escondido inventor’s decades-old toy is now spinning with new life. On the popular show’s Feb. 16 episode, astrophysicist Raj tried to ...