Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Scientists have identified the largest sulfur-containing organic molecule in interstellar space, providing new insights into life's cosmic origins.

Some galaxies eject powerful streams of charged particles—jets—from their centers into space. The prominent jet of Messier 87 ...

"This is one of the most exciting results from Solar Orbiter so far." ...

Observations with the Event Horizon Telescope enable researchers to localize the likely base of the central outflow in a ...

In the crowded, turbulent heart of the Milky Way, scientists have picked out a fragile pattern of atoms that could help ...

Harman develops his theme through diverting chapters on historiography (featuring an excursus on why Mongolian warlords gave ...

An international research team within the DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB/TRR 270 “HoMMage”, has published new findings on more efficient permanent magnets in the prestigious journal Nature ...

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have spotted the largest complex molecule in deep space ...

A Planck? Planck’s constant like the physics number for something complicated? Nah, that’s not keyboard related. But maybe it ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

An evolution-inspired framework for how quantum fuzziness gives rise to our classical world shows that even imperfect ...