While the latest study is by no means the first to propose the idea of multiple universes, it offers a mathematical model to show how merging with other, smaller universes might expand our universe.

The concept of multiple universes goes back to the 6th century, when pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Anaximander suggested the idea of infinite worlds for the first time. Yet multiverse ideas ...

Is it far-fetched? Of course! But right now, cosmologists are trying to figure out if there’s a group of multiple universes running parallel to each other—and whether they might be habitable.

Again, natural places to find other universes. And so in all these different ways, there could be multiple universes. Now that sounds great but of course, if every possibility is played out across ...

She has a 50/50 chance of surviving, right? It might not be that simple if we live in a multiverse - the idea that multiple universes, apart from the one we call home, exist. This scenario with ...

You seem to have an image of multiple universes stacked within each other like Russian dolls, but with the possibility of the number of such dolls being infinite. This isn’t how our universe works.

Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory, describes emerging ideas about where our universe comes from, what else is out there, and what caused it to exist in the first place.