Europe has just run its most extreme space weather simulation yet — a scenario so severe that no spacecraft was left ...

Neutron stars pack extreme mass into tiny volumes. Scientists explore how compact they can become before collapsing into ...

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has ...

Remarkably, even though radioactivity is a threat to life, scientists can control and use it to diagnose and treat diseases – ...

Developed by researchers at MIT, the method uses the atom’s own electrons as “messengers” within a molecule to help probe ...

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

The origins of extremely high-energy particles that fill the universe—such as protons, electrons, and neutrinos—remain one of ...