In the season 2 episode “Mirror, Mirror,” Star Trek perfected the alternate universe trope long before Hollywood became obsessed with the unlimited franchise-expanding potential of a multiverse.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Borg queen smiles in Star Trek: First Contact - Paramount Some of the most famous alien races in all of science fiction ...

We could go out with a crunch, and not a bang. Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean researchers suggests that dark ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), detecting a supernova—the explosive death of a massive star—at an ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together. The razor-thin chain of galaxies sits inside a much larger filament that ...

Scientists are relatively certain that the observable universe is relatively flat, but in terms of the cosmos’s global topography, uncertainty reigns. A new study from an international scientific ...

The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that physical structure may not be where intelligence and consciousness actually ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting stronger and stronger upper limits, so alternative scenarios have to be ...

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