The Big Bang may have brought the universe into existence, but will a similar event bring about its demise?
If the universe is teeming with intelligent alien civilizations, then why have we yet to discover any?
New light has been shone on the whereabouts of a large percentage of the universe's missing baryonic matter.
A science experiment in Antarctica may have discovered particles from a universe where time runs backwards.
A new hypothesis has put forward the notion that our universe may be self-simulating itself into existence.
A new study has cast doubt on the idea that the expansion of the universe is the same in every direction.
According to physicists, a hole in the fabric of reality could wipe out everything in the universe.
Scientists have spotted an explosion five times greater than anything seen since the birth of the universe.
The question of exactly what consciousness is has puzzled philosophers and scientists alike for millennia.
Britain's first ever astronaut - Dr. Helen Sharman - is certain that we are not alone in the universe.
New evidence suggests that, rather than being flat like a sheet, the universe may in fact loop around on itself.
The 'many worlds' hypothesis suggests the existence of countless other universes similar to ours but different.
Scientists have revealed the first photograph of a universe-spanning network of intergalactic filaments.
Known as the 'Methuselah star' due to its extreme age, this nearby stellar body may predate the Big Bang.
A new attempt to calculate how fast the universe is expanding has thrown up more questions than answers.
Scientists are attempting to prove the existence of parallel universes by firing neutrons at a solid wall.
A new study has highlighted the fact that there is still much we don't know about the expansion of the cosmos.
The Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the brightest quasar ever detected in the early universe.
A new theory has proposed that our universe is riding on the edge of an expanding bubble in an extra dimension.
Scientists have suggested that most of the universe may be made up of a 'dark fluid' with a negative mass.