From the mysterious Planet Nine to the prospect of a "human-caused meteor shower," space and physics editor Brandon Specktor ...

Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the inevitability of singularities, which are obscured by black holes ...

From mysterious dark matter to the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei, the past 12 months have reiterated just how strange ...

Behold, the giants! The Hubble Space Telescope has completed a decade of observing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Giggle. This film explores the evolution of our understanding of the solar system, highlighting the significant discovery of ...

In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...

MIT research uncovers boiling's potential, driving advances in energy, cooling, and safety, with applications from power ...

Another significant lunar first came later in the year when China’s Chang’e-6 mission successfully returned samples back to ...

Superradiance in optical cavities involves atoms emitting light collectively when interacting with cavity photons, a ...