Why the Universe May Not Be Infinite After All
The assumption that space goes on forever has never actually been tested. The oldest light in existe...
Cosmology
The origin, evolution, and fate of the universe.
Why the Earliest Galaxies Should Not Exist
The James Webb Space Telescope found massive, ancient galaxies that formed before the universe had t...
Did We Just Find a Crack in Spacetime?
The universe may have left scars from its first second of existence. We are only now building instr...
Can a Black Hole Destroy Spacetime Itself?
General relativity says yes. Every quantum gravity theory says no. Both are working from incomplete...
Why the Big Bang Is Not What You Think It Is
The universe may not have begun from nothing. A researcher argues it was already ancient before ligh...
Why the CMB Cold Spot Has No Explanation Yet
A patch of the oldest light in the universe is colder than physics says it should be. Twenty years o...
Why the Universe Has No "Before" the Big Bang
The question sounds simple. The answer dissolves the question entirely.