Scientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after ...

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 ...

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

When we think of the Big Bang, we think loud, hot, and bright. But was it followed by a colder, darker shadow? Five-sixths of the universe seems to be made up of a mysterious substance called “dark ...

Physicists have made a monumental discovery that sheds light on the early moments of the universe. By recreating conditions ...

When you're recreating conditions just moments after the Big Bang then you need all the computing muscle you can get. For researchers at the nuclear research lab Cern, home to the world famous Large ...

A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America's most famous fictional physicists couldn't: how to theoretically produce subatomic particles ...

Our universe started with a bang that blasted everything into existence. But what happened next is a mystery. Scientists think that before atoms formed—or even the protons and neutrons they’re made of ...