The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

A JetBlue flight had to make an emergency landing in Florida after suddenly losing altitude while en route from Mexico to New ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest ...

A single green laser, a glass bead smaller than a bacterium and a lab in Austria are helping you see lightning in a new way.

An effect first observed decades ago by Nobel laureate Arthur Ashkin has been used to fine tune the electrical charge on ...

We can't see dark matter directly, so studying it pushes the boundaries of our creativity as scientists. How exciting, says ...

Using a precisely aligned pair of laser beams, scientists can now hold a single aerosol particle in place and monitor how it ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...

Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum ...

Lightning is one of the most familiar spectacles in the sky, yet the exact spark that starts a bolt has remained stubbornly out of reach. Now a physicist has managed to trap a microscopic particle and ...

Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction but at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) it is a reality. By trapping and charging ...