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 ...

Eric Idle persuades Professor Brian Cox to present a lecture on the birth of the entire universe. Brian soon realises Eric is actually hosting a comedy and musical extravaganza with the help of ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Albert Einstein introduced his theory of general relativity in 1915, it changed the way we viewed the universe. His gravitational model showed how Newtonian gravity, which had dominated ...

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen ...

This theory highlights the extraordinary lengths an alien civilization might go to to ensure its survival and to explore the ...

THE discovery of the red shift in the spectra of distant stellar galaxies revealed the important fact that our universe is in the ... to run through the entire range of chemical elements.

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 ...