The scientific and cultural impact of 3I/ATLAS over the coming months and years will serve as an exemplar of what astronomy ...

During those very early moments of the universe, things were extraordinarily hot, and quark-gluon plasma behaves in strange ...

“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

The collisions will happen under enough heat and pressure to melt protons and neutrons and release their components (quarks ...

In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics ...

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in ...

Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...

The ATLAS and ALICE collaborations have announced the first results of a new way to measure the “radial flow” of quark–gluon ...

University of Arizona astrophysicist Erika Hamden takes readers on a romp through a "Weird Universe" in her debut popular ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...