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We've arrived late for the cosmic show - too late for the best seat, says Harvard theorist Avi Loeb. He says the ideal time to study the cosmos was more than 13 billion years ago, just half a billion years after the Big Bang. read m...
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Most cosmologists trace the birth of the universe to the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. But a new analysis of the relic radiation generated by that explosive event suggests the universe got its start eons earlier and has cycled th... Read Post

The standard theory of cosmic inflation states that our universe expanded rapidly in the moments after its birth at the Big Bang, which explains why the universe is billions of years old, as well as why the universe is nearly... Read Post

New research finds that the ideal time to study the cosmos was more than 13 billion years ago, just about 500 million years after the Big Bang - the era (shown in this artist's conception above) when the first stars... Read Post