The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

Earth is the only known place where humanity exists — where humanity can exist. It is the only known place where laughter, ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

They have shown that in certain theories, the entire Universe can be trapped in a state of eternal inflation, inhospitable to life. In other cases, quantum fluctuations may trigger the formation of ...

Since the discovery of the acceleration, theorists have calculated that the universe will continue to expand faster and ...

From our little perch inside the Milky Way, the image shows the universe stretching out for ... Each of the 50,000 dots represents an entire galaxy. The Earth, once believed to sit at the center ...

Every three nights, the telescope will image the entire visible sky ... two of the most stubborn and mysterious features of our universe. “The Vera Rubin Observatory will enable astronomers ...

Using our "mirror" hypothesis, Boyle and I managed to extend their arguments to cosmology and to calculate the entropy of entire universes. To our surprise, the universe with the highest entropy ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ... matter converted into stars over the entire history of the Universe, for different dark energy densities.