For decades, one of the biggest questions in cosmology has remained frustratingly out of reach: what, if anything, existed ...

Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward ...

We're often told it is "unscientific" or "meaningless" to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King's College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy ...

Virtual reality Computational models put our understanding of the laws of physics to the test. But how much of the universe can we fit into a simulation? (Courtesy: iStock/agsandrew) As I write this, ...