How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

Scientists believe that in the very early universe, everything was incredibly tiny, chaotic, and full of random energy ripples, known as quantum foam. It was a state where spacetime was unstable, and ...

Before there was light, there was cosmic inflation. Before life, planet Earth, the first galaxies — and even before the violent explosion of hot dense primordial stuff scientists traditionally have ...

NASA’s SPHEREx telescope has combined 100+ infrared maps into the universe’s first all-sky cosmic atlas, revealing galaxies, interstellar clouds, and cosmic inflation patterns never seen before.

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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 ...

Scientists have revealed the largest map of the universe ever. An international team has created the most detailed map to date, cataloguing nearly 800,000 galaxies and reaching back almost to the dawn ...