Our universe isn’t special. Around about 13.7 billion years ago, the Big Bang kicked-off life as we know it. But the universe it created isn’t the first — and won’t be the last, according to 2020 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — In trying to understand the nature of the cosmos, some theorists propose that the universe expands and contracts in endless cycles. Because this behavior is hypothesized to be ...

For most of us, “inflation” is a term that comes up only in conversations about the economy or flat tires. But for many cosmologists, inflation is the ultimate word in understanding how the universe ...