For decades, scientists assumed that the expansion of the universe was powered by a new entity, known as the inflaton, but ...

If the universe sprung forth in this manner, then probably inflation has occurred in other places, perhaps an infinite number of places, beyond our horizon and outside of our time. The implication ...

A new study suggests that the cosmic web could have formed without relying on inflation driven by a scalar field. Instead, it ...

Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory, describes emerging ideas about where our universe comes from, what else is out there, and what caused it to exist in the first place.

This phenomenon is separate from the early inflation of the universe driven by the Big Bang, which had almost drawn to a halt when dark energy took over! To see why that is worrying, imagine ...

Cosmic inflation is a faster-than-light expansion of the universe that spawned many others. Inflation was invented to explain a couple of features of the universe that are really hard to explain ...

and created all the matter and energy in the universe. Exactly what triggered this sudden expansion remains a mystery. Astronomers believe it involved a runaway process called "inflation," in ...

Inflation occurs so rapidly that the universe is in a supercooled expansion, where the temperature drops by a factor of roughly 100,000. This low temperature persists through the inflationary stage.

“Some suggest that the burst of inflation in the early stages of our universe might be eternal, with individual universes crystallising out of it, each written with its own unique laws of ...