Hundreds of eyewitnesses reported hearing a loud boom around 4:40 p.m.

Something is hiding inside Kepler-51d, and it’s doing a remarkably good job of it. About 2,615 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, this peculiar world orbits a young Sun-like star every 130 ...

Astronomy professor Sean Kelly’s deep-rooted love for the universe was so ingrained that he carried it with him while ...

Physicists have directly visualized the fundamental electronic building blocks of flat-band quantum materials, a class of systems in which electron motion is effectively quenched and strong ...

Physics departments chairs around the country have expressed feelings of demoralization, decreased productivity, and a reduced capacity for graduate students as a result of policy changes. These ...

For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an ...

Hawaiʻi Keiki Museum’s Island Science Lecture Series continues this month with a presentation from one of the observatories atop the Big Island’s Mauna Kea. The museum in Waikōloa is thrilled to ...

A new subatomic particle known as the Ξcc⁺ has been discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. This heavy proton-like particle contains two charm quarks and was detected using the upgraded LHCb ...

Dr. Michael Guillén says his deep understanding of science — including modern cosmology and human consciousness — ...

The State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University) recently announced that Endowed Presidential Professor of Physics, in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of ...

When the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced in Stockholm in October 2013, the world was watching. Among the names read out was Prof Peter Higgs, the British theorist who, nearly half a century ...

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic fields observed across the universe Cosmic magnetic fields are everywhere, ...