In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics describes all known ...

I've always been fascinated by how materials break down, especially glasses and polymers that don't have a regular crystal ...

There has been a lot of news lately about the Sun, specifically with regards to the increasing number of large solar winds ...

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...

A mysterious visitor from another solar system could be an alien spacecraft, according to a leading Harvard astronomer.

"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...

The object 9.1 billion light-years away, named FRB 20230521B, now holds the record for the most distant FRB ever recorded.

The white wicker bench with its pristine cushions looks like it was plucked straight from a Hamptons garden party rather than a thrift store in northwestern Pennsylvania. For the budget-conscious ...

Collaboration has obtained a high-precision cosmic-ray boron spectrum in the energy range of 10 GeV/n–8 TeV/n, and discovered ...

Scientists are using trapped ions in cutting-edge experiments to hunt for signs of an undiscovered particle that might help unravel the mystery of dark matter. The Standard Model of particle physics o ...

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.