The sun is located about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, aka the Milky Way, and its orbit is close to ...

Living within a few miles of a nuclear power plant exposes someone to a small fraction of the radiation of an X-ray.

Muon beams can now be created in a device that is the length of a ruler.

He and a colleague, Tsung-Dao Lee, created a sensation in 1956 by proposing that one of the four forces of nature might ...

Scientists think they have finally found evidence for the existence of a cosmic object that has only existed in theory. Dark ...

The study revealed that muon scattering measurements lasting for just a few hours can predict nuclear material amounts in ...

Astronomers have uncovered the source of a strange, repeating signal nestled within a powerful cosmic explosion.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) often share breathtaking views of Earth, but one recent photograph taken by Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui has captured an extraordinary moment ...

The IceCube observatory detects possible sources of neutrinos in the galaxy NGC 1068, reinforcing the search for the origin ...

Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...

NASA measures radiation over Greenland to improve aviation safety and validate models that predict cosmic doses polar flight ...

Astronomers using nine years of MWA data have set the strongest limits yet on the 21-cm hydrogen signal from the universe’s ...