Dealing with cranks is an occupational hazard for most scientists, but it’s especially bad for physicists and astronomers. Those who study the cosmos for a living tend to be bombarded with letters, ...

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If you've been scrolling through social media recently, you might have stumbled upon sensational claims resurging about NASA discovering a parallel universe in Antarctica. According to the claims, ...

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Let's explore the possibility of traveling to universes beyond our own — if they so exist, that is. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

"There was a time when ‘universe' meant ‘all there is,' " writes Greene, but soon we may have to redefine that word, along with our own meager understanding of the cosmos. A theoretical physicist and ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Is our cosmos the whole kaboodle, or is it merely one among an infinite number of universes? Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 thriller The Day of the Jackal tells the story of a fiendishly clever assassin who ...