Unafraid to question both scripture and science, Ramakrishnan brings an iconoclast's clarity and a seeker's humility to his work. Brahman: All This Whatsoever That Moves is the culmination of his ...

While headlines around the world claimed that ancient galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope were "breaking" our understanding of the Big Bang, the truth is much more nuanced — and much ...

Physicists are quietly entertaining one of the strangest ideas in modern cosmology: that the cosmos we see might be only half ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has rested on a simple but audacious idea: that a fixed “cosmological constant” drives the ...

The mid-20th century featured a substantial scientific and public debate between the Big Bang theory and the Steady State model, with the former proposing a universe with a definitive beginning and ...

The prevailing Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model, based on the Big Bang and subsequent inflation, faces challenges including the inability to explain the universe's homogeneity and the singularity ...

A variation on the theory of quantum gravity — the unification of quantum mechanics and Einstein's general relativity — could help solve one of the biggest puzzles in cosmology, new research suggests.

READER QUESTION: My understanding is that nothing comes from nothing. For something to exist, there must be material or a component available, and for them to be available, there must be something ...

How rapidly is the universe expanding? Since Edwin Hubble first discovered in 1929 that galaxies are getting farther apart over time, allowing scientists to trace the evolution of the universe back to ...

This image represents the evolution of the Universe, starting with the Big Bang. Despite how counterintuitive the Big Bang picture is, and the number of scientific attempts to come up with viable, ...