Physicists have finally secured direct evidence that quantum spin ice, a long-hypothesized and highly unusual state of matter ...

Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the ...

University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life ...

Elon Musk shared a personal detail about his family. His partner, Shivon Zilis, has Indian roots. Their son's middle name, ...

A new breakthrough in gravitational wave research is challenging long-standing assumptions about how these signals behave.

In data from a NASA space telescope over 17 years old, an astronomer has allegedly found direct traces of the enigmatic dark matter for the first time.

UT researchers have made rare measurements of exotic nuclear decay that reshape how scientists think heavy elements form in extreme cosmic events. You can’t have gold without the decay of an atomic ...

BEIJING -- A series of scientific satellites launched by China have achieved major discoveries in fields such as cosmic transient objects, cosmic-ray propagation and solar eruptions, renewing humanity ...

One of the four missions at DOE’s High Flux Isotope Reactor is neutron scattering, a research technique used to study matter at the atomic scale. These neutrons are produced at HFIR through fission, ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.