As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

In the 1960s, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union signed a treaty banning nuclear weapons tests ...

Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

You can't have gold until a nucleus decays. The specifics of that process have been hard to pin down, but UT's nuclear ...

Researchers discovered a hidden 185,000 light-year "bridge" of gas between two distant galaxies, which are also trailed by a ...

Researchers have identified two theories explaining the mysterious gamma ray glow at the center of the Milky Way.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University may have uncovered a promising clue in the long-running effort to confirm the existence of dark matter.For ...

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way may actually be the first evidence for an elusive "dark" phenomenon, new ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University believe they have found the evidence for dark matter they have been searching for.

The enigmatic existence of dark matter has been perplexing for scientists as it, for decades, remains stubbornly hidden from ...