Longtime Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern said Thursday his daughter Molly McGovern, “the soul of our family,” had died ...

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

T he Perseus cluster is enormous. It has a mass equivalent to 600 trillion Suns, and it looks like it has not stopped growing. New evidence suggests that it is undergoing a merging process with ...

This scenario is known as false vacuum decay, a spectacular fan favourite (it’s me, I am the fan). Why is it a fan favorite?

Researchers at Rice University, Houston, Texas, have developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially ...

Dark matter, the invisible stuff that scientists have determined makes up 85 percent of the mass in the universe, remains one ...

A collaboration of US-based researchers has turned to the PROSPECT-I detector at ORNL in search of the elusive sterile ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

Scientists may have finally found the universe’s missing matter - hidden in invisible hydrogen gas far beyond galaxies.

Dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up a significant portion of the universe, continues to puzzle scientists. For ...

"All the odd shapes and swirling gas observed in the Perseus cluster now make sense," said astronomer James Lee.

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...