The authors present their new findings that the multiple "pocket universes" in the mutiverse predicted by prevailing theories in cosmology may not be inhospitable to life as previously thought and could contain life as well.

Enormous cosmic voids and giant concentrations of matter have been observed in a new galaxy survey, one of the biggest completed so far. One of the voids is so large that it is difficult to explain where it came from.

Fermilab scientists have found anomalous "holographic noise" in their GEO600 gravitational-wave detector that suggests the possibility that we live in a hologram.

Earth may be trapped in an abnormal bubble of space-time that is particularly void of matter, which could account for the apparent acceleration of the universe's expansion, not dark energy.

An international group of scientists from has been working on an ambitious project whose goal is to simulate on a supercomputer the evolution of the entire universe, from just after the Big Bang until the present.

Cosmologists are debating whether one consequence of the multiple universe theory is that our own universe could be a giant simulation running on some alien computer.

Recent astronomical measurements, scientists say, cannot rule out the possibility that in a few billion years a mysterious force permeating space-time will be strong enough to blow everything apart, shred rocks, animals, molecules and finally even atoms in a last seemingly mad instant of cosmic self-abnegation.

Cosmologists debate the anthropic principle and the existence of multiple universes at a recent conference.

NASA has proved the existence of "dark energy", a cosmic force that counteracts gravity and will keep the universe expanding forever. The discovery effectively demolishes the theory that life will be wiped out in a "Big Crunch" when the universe collapses, and should end decades of academic dispute over the forces at work on the universe.

A powerful satellite has captured the best picture ever taken of the infant universe, an image so detailed that scientists said it answers some of the most important questions about the cosmos, including when it was born and how it will probably die.