Earth may be caught in the middle of a galaxy-encompassing void, but there's no need to panic. This may actually be the key to understanding how old the universe is and how rapidly it is expanding.

A researcher has revived an almost 100-year-old theory to refute that the Big Bang ever happened, challenging one of the most established theories in modern science. As detailed in a paper published ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say. Their theory is a ...

New research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham suggests a revolutionary possibility: Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be nestled ...

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

I asked my friend Julie Ménard how Earth formed. She’s a planetary scientist at Washington State University. She told me it started with the Big Bang. That was nearly 14 billion years ago. “The Big ...

For many critics of religion, particularly within atheist circles, the Big Bang theory is frequently presented as a decisive scientific evidence against belief in God and the biblical doctrine of ...