We are the Universe trying to understand itself. How, and why, did we come to be? Why does the Universe take the shape it ...

Why does the universe exist at all? Why is it fine-tuned to human life? Why does it seem to be telling us that there are other universes out there, even other yous? In these articles, we confront ...

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

The strength of dark energy in our universe is not optimized for forming stars, which means other universes might have a ...

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they ...

Europa could harbor more water than Earth, which is why both America and Europe are ... vast subsurface oceans could exist on at least a dozen objects in our solar system, planetary scientists ...

It appears that we are living in this flat type of universe. Figuring out why we are living in this type of universe is not ...

Most scientists agree that alien life almost certainly exists in the ... If we look at the universe as a whole, then there are approximately 200 billion galaxies. Why would life just occur here?

Do multiverses exist? Is our universe one of many ... As we understand it so far, no, which is why discussion of the multiverse gets ridiculed by some scientists. But that doesn’t mean it ...