In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of ...

Arnold Mathijssen, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, applied the principles of fluid dynamics to pour-over ...

Quantum information systems are poised to revolutionize scientific discovery, computing, sensing, communications, and beyond.

Over billions of years, the universe has transformed from a simpler state into an intricate cosmic web, but new research ...

If you've ever tried making Cacio e Pepe at home, you know the heartbreak. One minute you're expecting a smooth, velvety ...

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like plutonium, challenging traditional theories and possibly explaining strange cosmic ...

Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion.

In 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN jointly announced the discovery of the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...

Exploration of the outer solar system is offering critical clues about its history. Scientists have uncovered new details ...