Science and Scripture offer very different ways of talking about beginnings. The real question may be less about choosing one and more about what each is actually trying to explain.

The Big Bang explains a great deal, but some of its deepest questions remain unanswered. Future discoveries could change far more of the story than many people realize.

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. Since 1964, the Big Bang has been the context ...

What is the ekpyrotic universe theory? It might sound like something you’d find in a Petri dish, but ekpyrotic cosmology is ...

“The Big Bang” is the idea that the universe began as “just a single point,” then expanded and stretched to grow as large as it is right now—and it is still stretching! This radical new theory on the ...

Melbourne researchers believe they may be on the brink of rewriting the history of the universe. A paper being published in a US physics journal suggests it may be possible to view "cracks" in the ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...

WHAT if the big bang never happened? Ask cosmologists this and they’ll usually tell you it is a stupid question. The evidence, after all, is written in the heavens. Take the way galaxies are scattered ...