The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles Steinhardt suspects a few pages are missing. Either the universe has been playing ...

For years now, astronomers have been witnessing what seems like an ever-growing puzzle regarding the early formation of the ...

We all know that everything kicked off when the Big Bang exploded our universe into reality, right? Well, not necessarily. A ...

A study by Dartmouth researchers proposes a new theory about the origin of dark matter, the mysterious and invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. They say the ...

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery birth like the Big Bang, this idea suggests the cosmos has been growing in ...

The Big Bang may be a Big Bogus. A team of physicists at the University of Portsmouth theorize that the universe was created ...