The team behind Europe's Euclid space telescope just published the world's most extensive simulation of the universe, which maps an astonishing 3.4 billion galaxies.

Many philosophers and scientists have pondered if we live in a simulated universe, and University of Portsmouth scientist ...

Yampolskiy continues this tradition of exploring the boundaries of a possible simulation and specifically exploring ways to escape it. Yampolskiy pulls examples from real-world examples of hacks, ...

Euclid Consortium, the international group that manages the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope, has published the ...

By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...

Using a chain of atoms in single file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole, a team of physicists in 2022 observed ...

Scientists have used supercomputers to create a "synthetic universe" that will help predict what the next generation of super-telescopes will see upon opening their eyes to the cosmos. These ...

Interpreting the universe as a computer simulation is perhaps the inevitable byproduct of living in the computer age. The question today is not whether we live inside a simulation, but rather -- what ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Image extracted from the Euclid Flagship simulations catalogue. Each dot represents a galaxy: ...