Astronomer Fred Hoyle supposedly coined the catchy term to ridicule the theory of the Universe’s origins — 75 years on, it’s time to set the record straight. “Words are like harpoons,” UK physicist ...

The Big Bang theory is supported by the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The universe rapidly expanded and cooled after the Big Bang. Light elements like helium and lithium ...

The Big Bang: The moment when the universe — everything in existence — began. ... Right? Turns out, it's not quite that simple. Today, when scientists talk about the Big Bang, they mean a period of ...

“NO QUESTION is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing,” philosopher Derek Parfit once wrote. Sublime it might be, but the question has traditionally ...

Life imitated art Tuesday when "The Big Bang Theory" — the American TV sitcom, not the scientific explanation for how the universe began — entered the annals of Nobel Prize history. The announcement ...

Looking back a variety of distances corresponds to a variety of times since the Big Bang. Entropy has always increased from any moment to the next, but that doesn't mean that the Big Bang began with ...

The Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco has given birth to her and Tom Pelphrey's daughter. Announcing this wonderful news via Instagram today (April 1), she wrote alongside a bunch of intermingled heart ...