Throughout the existence of life on Earth, we have always been plagued with the question — are we alone? Regardless of humanity’s contrasting beliefs, there has always existed the undeniable fact that ...

Hints of a mirror cosmos have a way of gripping the imagination, and recent chatter about “first proof” of a parallel ...

Is there evidence for the existence of an enormous number of other universes? In 1987, Steven Weinberg wrote a cute little paper entitled “Anthropic Bound on the Cosmological Constant”. Weinberg was ...

Below, Halpern shares five key insights from his new book, The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes. Listen to the audio version—read by Halpern himself—in ...

(via PBS Space Time) In 1987, Steven Weinberg wrote a cute little paper entitled “Anthropic Bound on the Cosmological Constant”. I say cute little paper because it feels minor in comparison to, say, ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe so far. Webb’s First Deep Field is galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and it is teeming with ...

Our universe seems to be perfectly suited for life. But anyone who claims that's evidence of a multiverse is falling prey to a logical fallacy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

With the outstanding question of “what caused the Big Bang” continuing to puzzle physicists, one of the world’s most respected academics in the field has proposed a devilishly simple bargain: that ...

One of the most startling scientific discoveries of recent decades is that physics appears to be fine-tuned for life. This means that for life to be possible, certain numbers in physics had to fall ...

Beginning in the mid-20th century, Western intellectuals began dismantling the concept of objective truth. Postmodern ...