How did the universe begin? A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at that very large question.

NASA telescope will study what put the bang in the big bang The SPHEREx space telescope will explore the universe's origin and gather data on cosmic inflation.

In the 1970s, physicist Alan Guth concocted a radical picture of the extremely early universe.

For decades, scientists assumed that the expansion of the universe was powered by a new entity, known as the inflaton, but new research suggests that it may have been possible without it.

This cyclic model of branes colliding is called the ekpyrotic theory. Another model is that of chaotic, or eternal, inflation, which expands upon Alan Guth's theory of inflation from the early 1980s.

How did everything begin? It's a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, ...

In March 20 of 2014, Alan Guth explained it succinctly: “I usually describe inflation as a theory of the ‘bang’ of the Big Bang: It describes the propulsion mechanism that we call the Big ...

At the Park Avenue Armory, an imaginative and viscerally shocking staging of Schubert songs from the director Claus Guth and the tenor Jonas Kaufmann.

You know about Einstein, and you’re no doubt familiar with Richard Feynman and Stephen Hawking, but there are plenty of famous physicists alive today that you should know about if you don’t already.

Recent high school graduates Angelina Fewins, of Weatherly, and Jaclyn Guth, of Marian Catholic, have been named the recipients of the Brian Van Horn Memorial Scholarship for 2023. Both will receiv… ...

Before Alan Guth came along, cosmologists seldom dared to guess. The Big Bang theory, based on speculations dating back to 1922 and confirmed by astronomers in the 1960s, posited that the universe ...