The universe began with a massive expansion, billions and billions of years ago, and it continues to expand with every passing second. The idea that the universe, and man's very existence, began with a ''Big Bang'' is no longer a topic of debate among most scientists--it is essentially taken as fact. How has man come to this ...

Physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an approach that may help unlock the hidden shapes of alternate dimensions of the universe. A computer-generat...

The 2006 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to John Mather and George Smoot for their contribution to the big bang theory of the origin of the universe. The pair were honored for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the co...