The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twinkling golden stars surrounded by blue gas The term "Big Bang" is thrown around casually, to the point of becoming the title of ...

It’s unclear whether science as a discipline—and scientists as people—will ever be able to answer some questions definitively ...

Scientists have long been interested in the early history of the universe. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped popularize that the Big Bang was a singular point in time — but that's not how many ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. About 13.8 billion years ago, the entire cosmos consisted of a tiny, hot, dense ball of energy that suddenly exploded. That’s how ...