Over 13 billion years ago, the entire universe was contained in a singularity tinier than a proton. So how did we get from there to here? Here's the abbreviated version of what we know (so far ...

Magnetic fields are everywhere in the universe. Of course, there's Earth's magnetic field, which deflects dangerous cosmic ...

Physicists have long grappled with the question of why the universe was able to support the evolution of intelligent life.

A breakthrough international collaboration, featuring researchers from TIFR, validates Einstein's gravity theory on cosmic ...

Carl Sagan told us that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of the Earth's beaches. At the same time, there are more H 2 O molecules in just 10 drops of water ...

Despite decades of searching, Earth is still the only known place in the entire universe where conscious beings raise their curious eyes to the sky and wonder. Earth is the only known place where ...

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 ...