WHAT would you rather believe in, God or the multiverse? It sounds like an instance of cosmic apples and oranges, but increasingly we are being told it’s a choice we must make. Take the dialogue ...

Sabine Hossenfelder is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany. Her research focuses on general relativity and quantum gravity. She is author of the blog ...

Whether you need a new villain or an old Spider-Man, your sci-fi movie will sound more scientifically respectable if you use the word "multiverse." The Marvel multiverse puts different versions of our ...

Is there evidence for the existence of an enormous number of other universes? In 1987, Steven Weinberg wrote a cute little paper entitled “Anthropic Bound on the Cosmological Constant”. Weinberg was ...

Look out at the Universe all you want, with arbitrarily powerful technology, and you'll never find an edge. Space goes on as far as we can see, and everywhere we look we see the same things: matter ...

Do we live in a multiverse? Daydreamers and science-fiction authors have pondered parallel universes for as long as scientists have described our own. Our universe contains everything we know — from ...

Could parallel universes exist? If so, what would they look like and how would they form? Video by Greg Kestin; article by Charles Choi. Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content ...