cosmic origins
How everything started
Cosmic origins refers to the beginning and early development of the universe, including the formation of matter, energy, galaxies, and the conditions that led to life.
The term appears in scientific and philosophical contexts: NASA's Cosmic Origins Program studies how galaxies formed.
It can also frame existential questions about humanity's place in the universe: We're all connected to our cosmic origins in the stars.
- Big BangUniverse's explosive origin
- big bang theoryUniverse origin hypothesis
- panspermiaLife spreads via space rocks
- creation mythsTraditional origin-of-everything tales
- dustFine settled particles
first light · star · gravitational waves · dark matter · spacetime · space and time · singularity · dark energy · multiverse · primordial soup · stellar nursery · extremophiles · nucleosynthesis · protostars · hydrothermal vents · nebulae · interstellar dust · gravity
- originsbeginning, birth, creation, source, roots
- cosmologybig bang, Big Bang, big bang theory, universe, dark matter
- PanspermiaFrancis Crick