My night musings often drift to deep truths of existence: thoughts on cosmos, consciousness, meaning (if any). I can't help it. That's why I'm entranced by the idea of a multiverse, the theory that ...

Below, Halpern shares five key insights from his new book, The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes. Listen to the audio version—read by Halpern himself—in ...

Astrophysicist and cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson, speaking with journalist Robert Krulwich during 92Y's Giants of Science series in 2007, explored one of cosmology’s biggest questions: How did the ...

Throughout the existence of life on Earth, we have always been plagued with the question — are we alone? Regardless of humanity’s contrasting beliefs, there has always existed the undeniable fact that ...

Could multiple universes actually exist beyond our reality? In this discussion, Maneeza Ahuja explores multiverse theory, ...

Just weeks after the turn of the 17th century, Giordano Bruno was burned alive by the Roman Inquisition for, among other things, claiming the existence of a plurality of worlds and their eternity. The ...

Scientists are working to bring the multiverse hypothesis, which to some sounds like a fanciful tale, firmly into the realm of testable science. Never mind the Big Bang; in the beginning was the ...

In his latest book Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg explores how science made the modern world, and where it might take us from here From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). If you're ...

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 ...

Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, writer and host of "Closer to Truth," a public television series and online resource that features the world's leading thinkers exploring humanity's deepest ...