Theoretical physicists James Hartle and Stephen Hawking, for example, proposed that rather than having a strict beginning as ...

A new analysis of astronomical data suggests unknown physics is at work assisting dark energy in acting almost as ...

I propose that a flat universe and its time-reversed partner—an anti-universe—can emerge together from nothing through a smooth, quantum process. This model, described in a manuscript accepted ...

A radical new theory by physicist Naman Kumar is challenging the way we think about the birth of the universe. Rather than ...