New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists ...

All celestial bodies—planets, suns, even entire galaxies—produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the ...

At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at ...

This new image of a portion of the Helix Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope highlights cometlike knots, fierce ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

Record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle.

Cloud 9 is a failed galaxy. It’s a clump of dark matter, called a dark matter halo, that never formed stars. But this failure ...