Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

Inspired by the "Harry Potter" stories and the Disney Channel show "Wizards of Waverly Place," 7-year-old Sabrina Corsetti emphatically declared to ...

“If you had been given the money you would have been six years ahead of us,” von Ohain told Whittle when they met years later ...

The Newton Fast Motion series features a striking red-to-gold finish that shifts color under sunlight. Every shaft is proudly Made in the U.S.A. at Newton Golf’s St. Joseph, Missouri facility, ...

Have you ever looked up after a sudden rainstorm and been caught off guard by a brilliant arc of color painting the sky? Rainbows have ... Read more The post 12 Fun Facts About Rainbows You Never Knew ...

Astronomers have found a remarkable pair of stars that may finally prove a long-debated theory. Described in the journal Nature Astronomy, this duo offers the strongest evidence yet that type 1a ...

Isaac Newton is perhaps the foundational archetype of a lone genius: pairing astonishing intelligence with abysmal interpersonal skills. "If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be ...

Sir Isaac Newton wrote his theory of gravity in a home-made ink created with beer as a key ingredient, a study suggests. The physicist published his theory of calculus, his three eponymous laws of ...

Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian and author. He was born on January 4, 1643, in England, and died on March 31, 1727.