Dark matter, the invisible substance that shapes the Universe, may have had a far more dramatic beginning than scientists once believed.

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are pioneering the design and synthesis of quantum ...

An Auburn University study finds that magnetic fields can guide electrons in plasma much like traffic signals, giving ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Astronomers have spotted a unique cosmic phenomenon: a "relic," which is a primordial building block of a galaxy that never ...

Runaway stars move fast enough to escape the Milky Way RR Lyrae stars are used as reliable distance markers Findings help map the galaxy’s hidden dark matter ...

We could go out with a crunch, and not a bang. Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean researchers suggests that dark ...

The manipulation of metals as they transform from a liquid to a solid can have immense benefits for technologies. A new study finds that the manipulation of stationary atoms in a liquid metal can ...