Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on Earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

Contemporary physics has learned to describe the universe with unprecedented precision. Yet when it tries to say what time is, it stumbles again and ...

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

Researchers discovered that gold, copper and iron nanocrystals form pentagonal snowflake-like patterns during rapid chemical ...

You are watching a long-held idea in stellar physics face serious scrutiny. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

Magnetism is usually taught as a story of straight lines, with field arrows marching neatly from north to south. In a lab at ...

Scientists have detected a surprisingly hot galaxy cluster dating back to the universe’s infancy. The cluster formed far earlier and burned far hotter than current models predict. Researchers believe ...

Right at the brink of a black hole, gravity twists space and time so violently that ordinary physics starts to fall apart.