The Big Bang

A collaboration with CERN
Asking the big questions about the birth and evolution of the universe

What was the Big Bang?

What is the universe made of?

Why do particles matter?

What's out there?

Answering the big questions

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What was the Big Bang?

What happened before the Big Bang?

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How do we know about the Big Bang?

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What are all these particles?

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How did atoms form?

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What is the Cosmic Microwave Background?

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What were the dark ages of the universe?

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How did the first stars form?

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What happens inside stars?

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Stars and supernovas

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The formation of the solar system

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Are we alone?

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What is the universe made of?

How CERN is unlocking the fundamental particles that make up everything around us

What was the universe like a fraction of a second after the Big Bang?

The Large Hadron Collider and the hunt for the Higgs Boson

A stroll through CERN's underground spaces

Take a guided Street View tour of CERN's spaces normally hidden from view

No small matter: exploring the strange world of antimatter

Where science fiction becomes reality

10 things you never knew about CERN

Uncover incredible facts about Europe's laboratory for particle physics

Why do particles matter?

A closer look at what we're made of

The particular history of particle physics

From small lab-bench experiments to gigantic machines built and run by people from all over the world

Seeing ghosts

On the hunt for 'ghost particles' 1,000m underground at Japan's Super-Kamiokande detector

What's out there?

How NASA and friends are probing worlds and planetary systems beyond our own

Are we alone?

Looking for life in exoplanets

Amazing Earth Images from the International Space Station

What is it like to travel at 17,500 mph, 250 miles above the planet?

A cosmic crash

What happens when two galaxies collide?

Watching the death of a nebula

How Hubble captured the Helix Nebula

10,000 galaxies

Exploring the Hubble Ultra Deep Field

The Whirlpool Galaxy

Take a tour of this majestic galaxy from the view of the Hubble Space Telescope

The promise of icy ocean worlds

Finding water in outer space

Satellite views of Earth at night

Exploring the Black Marble

Our window on the universe

The out-of-this-world story of the Hubble telescope

Making the invisible visible

NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

Mars as Art

Beauty and discovery on the Red Planet

Astounding sights at Saturn

13 years of Cassini's Saturn images

Building a new future in space

How NASA is creating deep space exploration systems

A 360-degree journey through the Orion Nebula

Fly through and explore the Orion Nebula in this immersive visualization

Top 10 NASA images

NASA's most requested photos

Hubble's Control Center: a 360-degree tour

Take a virtual tour of the Hubble Space Telescope’s home for mission operations

Is there life on Mars?

How NASA missions to the Red Planet are addressing one of the greatest mysteries of all