We found that 99.5% of them would experience a larger dark energy density than observed in our universe. In other words, it ...

But, considering a multiverse wherein each universe contains a different dark energy density—observed by one intelligent observer—the team found that 99.5 percent of these universes boasted a ...

New observations support the idea that hot, diffuse threads of gas called cosmic filaments connect clusters of galaxies ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

Clockwise from the upper-left panel: no dark energy, same dark energy density as in our universe, 30 and 10 times the dark energy density in our universe. Credit: Courtesy of Oscar Veenema, former ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation.

A controversial theory suggests the observable universe is the result of matter rebounding after the collapse of a black hole ...

Parallel universes with additional dark energy could have more stars than our universe, which increases the chance of alien life developing. (This image shows a stellar nursery in the Large ...

In our Universe, this fraction is approximately 23%. However, the model predicts that a universe with a higher dark energy density could achieve a star formation efficiency of 27%.

We found that 99.5% of them would experience a larger dark energy density than observed in our universe. In other words, it looks like we inhabit a rare and unusual universe within the multiverse.