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

The universe is a massive place, with galaxies well beyond our own. However, some also hypothesize that there may be more than one universe. The multiverse theory essentially suggests that our ...

Joseph Polchinski, one of the most creative physicists of his generation, whose work helped lay the mathematical foundation for the controversial proposition that our universe is only one in an almost ...

While parallel universes are a staple of science fiction, there are some real scientific theories to support them. But if parallel universes do exist, could we ever travel to them? It certainly wouldn ...

There may be another universe just a millimeter away from ours, hovering in an extra, hidden dimension. At any moment this second universe (or “membrane,” in M-theory—a relative of superstring theory) ...

I can’t be the only one here displeased by our current timeline. It’s pretty hard to experience endless COVID, debates about whether it’s genocide or just a little ethnic cleansing, and climate change ...

There's a certain logic to how human civilization operates. Some say it's predetermined by physics, others point to ...

Infinite possibility: Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly in Apple TV+ sci-fi drama Dark Matter - Apple TV+/Sandy Morris The head-scratching idea that we might exist in an infinite set of parallel ...

The universe is expanding faster and faster, but not all scientists agree that dark energy is the cause. Perhaps, instead, our universe keeps colliding with and absorbing smaller 'baby universes,' a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Milky Way is just a speck in a universe filled with an untold number of galaxies. But if we ...

The Big Ideas: What Is Reality? As they probe the secrets of the cosmos, scientists question whether our reality is but one in a multiverse. By Michio Kaku Dr. Kaku is a physicist. This essay is part ...