2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/5569I present the main features of the brane cosmology scenario, according to which our universe is a self-gravitating brane embedded in a five-dimensional spacetime.8 pages; Review talk in the XXXVIIth Rencontres de Moriond, "The Cosmological Model", Les Arcs, France, March 2002AstrophysicsGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Theorytext