A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden ...

Star clusters are of great importance in any galaxy: they are the birthplace of new stars, often containing massive stars of ...

A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

Researchers from TUM, working at CERN, have made a groundbreaking discovery that reveals how deuterons are formed. Another long-standing question in particle physics has been answered. Scientists ...

Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

A volcanologist answers your questions about glass-shard hairballs, cooking breakfast over lava, Gollum's end on Mount Doom, ...

Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 million miles of our planet on Friday. That's as ...

Scientists have managed to observe solar neutrinos carrying out a rare atomic transformation deep underground, converting carbon-13 into nitrogen-13 inside the SNO+ detector. By tracking two faint ...

Researchers have mapped the molecular changes that unfold as sunlight causes plastics to leach dissolved organic matter, findings that could reshape understanding of ecosystem health, water quality, ...