For the last few decades, researchers have been studying what the universe looked like in its first seconds. It is generally ...

According to a new study published as an Editor’s Suggestion in Physical Review D, researchers from The University of Tokyo ...

Last year’s reports that the BICEP2 telescope had uncovered evidence for cosmic inflation turned out to be a false alarm, but researchers in the field haven’t given up. Matthew R Francis describes how ...

The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period of exponential, almost instantaneous cosmic expansion called inflation.

A recent resurgence of interest in a bold cosmological theory has reignited debate about the nature of dark matter, the Big Bang, and the possible existence of a mirror universe. Originally proposed ...