Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the Milky Way called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This region holds clues ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Anaximenes challenged the foundations of how we see and interpret the world we live in with his innovative theory.

Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...

Mississippi State Professor of Physics Dipangkar Dutta is a principal investigator on a groundbreaking experiment -- revealing "symmetry" in physics doesn't always behave as scientists once believed - ...

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are business leaders, not scientists, and frequently get in far over their heads when discussing ...

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum ...

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their ...

Not only is it difficult to understand what goes on beyond the limits of the solar system that our planet calls home, the ...

For the last few decades, every observation seemed to be in reasonable agreement with this narrative, so physicists integrated a cosmological constant into their model of how the universe works.

The problem is that when we look around the local universe, the universe seems to be expanding faster than predicted by the ...