When matter collides with antimatter, both vanish in a powerful energy burst. Scientists explain who truly wins this cosmic ...

The Linac Coherent Light Source in California has been firing record-breaking X-ray pulses for years, but now it’s due for a ...

"You know we haven't done enough research into the effects of cosmic rays!" Ben Grimm, Fantastic Four #1, 1961 Ben may have been right way back when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created him and the rest of ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

An international team of scientists has just demonstrated, for the first time, a stream of particles escaping from a young, massive star cluster in our galaxy by combining data from NASA's Fermi ...

The Auger collaboration, which operates a cosmic ray observatory spanning 3000 km2 (~1158 sq mi) in the Argentine Andes, announces the observation of an unexpected structure in the spectrum ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Fact-based stories from our cosmic neighbourhood, one star or constellation at a time. Name it, navigate it, know it.

Neutron stars explained through stellar remnants and collapsed stars, revealing extreme density, gravity, magnetism, and ...

Particle and nuclear physics evokes evokes images of huge accelerators probing the extremes of matter. But in this round-up ...

A new theory suggests fusion reactors could help scientists search for axions, mysterious particles that may explain dark ...

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have, for the first time, demonstrated a technique that synchronizes ultrashort ...