A new theory suggests fusion reactors could help scientists search for axions, mysterious particles that may explain dark ...

Astrophysicists are starting to treat a strange class of “undead” suns as potential tools rather than mere curiosities, ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to merge Einstein’s smooth ...

Abundance, a book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, argues that many of America's most damaging crises are the result of ...

After years of searching, scientists at the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment have ruled out the possibility of the existence of a sterile neutrino.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the French scientist, is known as the Father of Chemistry (Specifically, the Father of Modern ...

A new computational breakthrough is giving scientists a clearer view into how dark matter structures evolve. Dark matter has remained one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology for almost a hundred ...

From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

By analyzing the archival data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of ...

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily life, doing work on something over and over usually makes it warmer. You ...