An exploration of the Big Bang theory and how people interpret its meaning, combining scientific understanding with philosophical reflection.

For good or ill, though, I'm not among those who consider science a malevolent enemy to my faith. The more of it I learn, the more it broadens my faith. Frequently, science makes me meditate in awe on ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have uncovered a bold new way to explain how the universe began—one that could reshape our understanding of the Big Bang. Instead of relying on ...

‘Cosmic fossils’ left by black holes created before the big bang may still shape the universe - Universe may have been ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Emma Chapman reviews Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper Before the bang That the universe evolved from a "hot Big Bang" is not in question, ...

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; another, time. Thirdly, it began the conditions and processes that eventually ...

LOS ANGELES -- The cast and crew of the "The Big Bang Theory" and the Chuck Lorre Family Foundation have teamed up with University of California, Los Angeles to create a scholarship for students in ...

Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae.