Carina Nebula’s ‘Mystic Mountain’: This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope‘s Wide ...

If a star explodes in space and no one is around to see it, does it wreak a change on terrestrial evolution? Yes, maybe – if ...

How does a compass work in space? From the moon to Venus, here’s how a compass would work beyond Earth’s magnetic field.

Quantum field theory's vacuum concept challenges classical views, revealing a metastable state that influences cosmic ...

Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...

The Sun is the brightest thing around, but many cosmic objects can be much brighter. And in fact, astronomers at NASA have ...

"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are ...

H3+, known as "the molecule that made the universe," plays a crucial role in interstellar chemistry and the birth of stars.

Researchers used X-rays to find that magnets reduce flaws in 3D-printed metal parts, improving quality by 80 percent.

The Standard Model (SM), the main physics framework describing elementary particles and the forces driving them, outlines key patterns in physical interactions referred to as gauge symmetries. One of ...

Writing in 1992 – in an essay that essentially relaunched Pritchard’s reputation – Young wondered why his work was never mentioned, ‘especially odd given that The Matrix was published during the ...