T o make good decisions on any question the public needs to be well-informed, something not so easily accomplished in America’s schools. That is a key point made by Michael Kent, a recently retired ...

This is Part 1 of a series on large extra dimensions. I always say that one of the things that separates real science from ...

Physicists are building detectors so sensitive that they may succeed in unraveling one of the greatest mysteries in modern physics: the true nature of dark matter.

NASA’s Hubble has examined Cloud-9, a strange object with no stars that offers clues about early galaxy formation and dark ...

A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

CSIC-INTA and using modelling techniques developed at the University of Oxford, has uncovered an unprecedented richness of small organic molecules in the deeply obscured nucleus of a nearby galaxy, ...

This idea is called the big bang model—which is an unfortunate name because it brings to mind a cosmos expanding like an ...

Science funding cuts in the UK are expected to be a "devastasting blow" for physics research, affecting international ...

Scientists have uncovered incredible truths about the universe, yet some mysteries still refuse to show us an explanation.

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...