UGC 2885, a spiral galaxy significantly larger than the Milky Way, is predominantly composed of dark matter (approximately 85% of its mass), as discovered by Vera Rubin. Despite the success of the Big ...

Specifically, the team is looking at the fraction of a second after the Big Bang, which is called Cosmic Inflation, because it is when the entire universe expanded outward from the point of the ...

Cosmic inflation tries to describe one brief but crucial phase in the Big Bang that launched the universe onto its expansion course. Credit: Christine Daniloff / MIT / ESA / Hubble / NASA Many ...

READER QUESTION: My understanding is that nothing comes from nothing. For something to exist, there must be material or a component available, and for them to be available, there must be something ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The Big Bang happened 13.8 billion years ago, and is generally regarded ...

Around 13.8 billion years ago, a single event gave birth to an extremely hot and dense sea of neutrons and electrons. Over time, these particles started to combine together, and, eventually, an atom ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. In cosmology, the Big Bang theory is king. It wasn’t always ...

So which characters on "The Big Bang Theory" just kind of stink? That's what we're here to discuss. Outside of the main group ...