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.

Expected to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA's SPHEREx space ...

SPHEREx is a groundbreaking NASA telescope that will map the entire sky in infrared, revealing insights into cosmic inflation ...

How it came to be that way depends on physics we barely understand, of inflationary quantum fields overcoming a remarkably ...

His 1981 paper heralded the virtues of inflation — an explanation for the smoothness, flatness and longevity of the Universe as well as the heat of the Big Bang — but it also challenged his ...

This initial period of rapid inflation set the stage for the vast and still-growing cosmos we observe today. Although astronomers cannot directly witness the universe's formation, much of what we ...

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.

While parallel universes are a staple of science fiction, there are some real scientific theories to support them. But if ...

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