one big question about the big bang remains: “What was it that banged?” The answer lies in his theory of cosmic inflation. “It sets up the conditions for the big bang—like a prequel ...

At the big bang, matter was created from the initial energy when it cooled enough for particles to form. But how was space ...

The mission—the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer; or SPHEREx—will ...

A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at that very large question.

It will collect data on over 450 million galaxies, and than 100 million stars in the Milky Way. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The SPHEREx space telescope, short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices ...

This hot, dense, nascent universe, under tremendous pressure, exploded outward, as described by the traditional hot Big Bang theory developed in the 1920s. Inflation was physicists’ revision for ...