To learn more about the nature of matter, energy, space, and time, physicists smash high-energy particles together in large ...

Scientists have long wondered why carbon-rich meteorites appear less affected by violent impacts than those lacking the stuff ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Amartya Sengupta will study phenomena at the intersection of particle physics and cosmology at the University of Cincinnati.

If this scenario plays out, “the world as we know it would collapse like a house of cards,” says one theoretical physicist.

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not only ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

In the cool October air of 2024, two snapshots—a portion of the Great Wall of China and a sun-drenched courtyard at South ...

Researchers have discovered that dense crowds can spontaneously synchronize into collective oscillations, with hundreds of people moving in coordinated, swirling patterns — like a human vortex. These ...

Scientists have located the missing half of the Universe's visible matter as vast clouds of ionized hydrogen in intergalactic ...