A team of astronomers say they've made the first ever detection of dark matter by examining gamma rays near the center of the ...

The detection of gravitational waves in 2023 revealed a cosmic event that seemed to overturn known laws of astrophysics, ...

China’s Giant Underground Neutrino Observatory Just Released Its First Results—And They’re Promising ...

Astronomers link an X-ray nebula to a pulsar-powered PeVatron, offering major clues to the origins of galactic cosmic rays.

A new paper published in Nature Communications could put scientists on the path to understanding one of the wildest, hottest, ...

Scientists found Chernobyl fuel grains that still contain radioactive gases and operational secrets from the reactor after 30 years ...

A study reveals that the cause of Chernobyl was not hidden fission, but changes in humidity inside the reactor, revealed by ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world with enough force to melt vast portions of its mantle and scatter a huge ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

A Japanese astronomer believes he has finally captured the first direct glimpse of dark matter, a discovery that, if ...

Imagine watching a massive star that's been burning steadily for millions of years suddenly dim, fluctuate, and then vanish ...