The Starmus Science Festival was first held in 2011, and since then it has become a tradition for leading scientists, celebrities in the field of astronautics and music, who share a passion for popularizing knowledge about the Earth and space. The founder of the festival and astrophysicist Garik Israelyan created an expert council, which included such remarkable personalities as astrophysicist and rock musician Brian May, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, microwave radiation pioneer Robert Wilson, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, chemist and Nobel laureate the Harold Kroteau Prize and others. This book contains lectures by scientists who have worked for many years to reconstruct the past of the universe and present its structure. They will introduce the most daring theories, some of which have been tested and proven, and some are still awaiting experimental verification, which is inaccessible at the current stage of technology development. Those who, based on modern data, have been able to draw the future of the universe, our planet and ours will also speak out on these pages. own.