Our sun is a roiling mass of energy, with solar flares exploding on its surface, sending gas, plasma, and light that blasts ...

A team of nuclear physicists has pulled off something that, until recently, existed only in theoretical models and the ...

Shock waves from tiny black holes in the early universe could explain how antimatter became so rare while matter is common.

An international team led by Monash University has uncovered evidence of a rare form of exploding star, helping to shed light on one of the most cataclysmic events in the universe. At the end of their ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a rare form of exploding star, helping to shed light on one of the most cataclysmic events in the Universe. (Nanowerk News) At the end of their lives, most ...

Scientists have just managed to reproduce a nuclear reaction that had never been observed directly before. The experiment ...

An international team of researchers – including experts at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) in the ...

Images of the space around the sun show the comet approaching the star intact—but only a shower of debris came the other side ...

Christopher W. Stubbs is an experimental physicist and Harvard professor of physics and astronomy. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. FM: You were the inaugural project scientist ...

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, the spirit of exploration that once pushed pioneers across a continent is now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voyager 1’s signal now takes nearly a full day to reach Earth as it pushes farther into the vast unknown of interstellar space. | ...

In an ancient dwarf galaxy on the outskirts of the Milky Way, astronomers have discovered one of the most chemically primitive stars ever seen. Named PicII-503, the star’s extreme lack of heavy ...