When massive stars die, they explode, leaving behind supernova remnants. Given how common binary star systems are — more than half the stars in our galaxy have a companion — it stands to reason that ...

Scientists have developed a remarkable liquid robot that blurs the line between machines and living organisms. Created by ...

This process weakens magnetic support, allowing the core to collapse and eventually form a protostar. Credit: Yurika Nakamura ...

The universe is haunted by "cosmic ghosts" called neutrinos, which seem to be the "whispers" of stars that died in supernova ...

Researchers have developed tiny silica nanoparticles that can directly destroy prostate tumors while also awakening the body's immune system to fight cancer, according to a new preclinical study led ...

Tiny silica nanoparticles engineered to seek out prostate cancer caused tumor cells to self-destruct and supercharged the ...

A star exploded roughly 260 light-years from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and astronomers have now traced the blast’s fingerprints in X-ray and infrared ...

Every time I write about particle physics, I encounter a moment of uncertainty about a quantity that, at first glance, ought to be clear. How many kinds of elementary particles should I say there are?

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — must be incomplete, because there are a host of phenomena it cannot ...

Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to belong to one of two categories — bosons or fermions — but researchers have ...

A pair of rare particles produced in high-energy proton collisions may be the clearest evidence yet that mass can emerge from empty space. The finding could shed light on one of the biggest puzzles in ...

When you drill down into the very fabric of reality—where elementary particles make up the matter that is you and me and everything around us in three-dimensional space—things get divided nicely into ...