We'll cut right to the chase: This video of Stanford Professor Andrei Linde finding out about yesterday's big discovery of "smoking gun" evidence of cosmic inflation (the "first tremors of the big ...

In the earliest moments after the universe was born, everything changed—fast. This rapid expansion, known as cosmic inflation, was theorized to solve problems in the Big Bang model. It explains why ...

New cosmic theory: Researchers suggest a mirror universe born with ours could explain the early matter–antimatter imbalance. Physics rules bent: The model allows local CPT symmetry violations during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cosmic inflation tries to describe one brief but crucial phase in the Big Bang that launched the universe onto its expansion ...

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One of the best-performing models in cosmology is also one with the least physical rationale behind it. Columnist Leah Crane ...

"If the model holds true, it could mark a new chapter in the way we think about the birth of the universe." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Update 12:05 p.m. — The team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has announced they've found "The First Direct Evidence of Cosmic Inflation." The scientists say that after three years ...

We all know that everything kicked off when the Big Bang exploded our universe into reality, right? Well, not necessarily. A compelling new theory of the creation of our universe suggests that it may ...