But is the expansion of the universe really relentless, or might the cosmos be setting up for its own fiery collapse? A growing body of astrophysical evidence is suggesting that dark energy, the ...
Where starlight doesn't reach, new things are born: For the first time, an international research team has directly measured ...
WASHINGTON — Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of a previously unidentified nearby source of high-energy cosmic rays. The finding was made with a NASA-funded balloon-borne instrument high ...
Some of the most energetic cosmic rays in the galaxy may come from a surprisingly small source. If Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics researcher Laura Olivera-Nieto and her colleagues are right, ...
From the fall of an apple to the glow of the farthest known star, gravity quietly choreographs almost everything that happens ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just spotted round clusters of stars inside a galaxy more than 13 billion light years away, which formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. The ...
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is one of the most ambitious undertakings in particle physics. For nearly $5 billion, scientists were able to build a ring of superconducting magnets chilled to ...
Far from Earth, drifting between the stars, lies a quiet ocean of carbon. Astronomers call it the interstellar medium, a vast realm where simple and complex molecules float through cold clouds of gas ...
Ever since French physicist Pierre Auger proposed in 1939 that cosmic rays must carry incredible amounts of energy, scientists have puzzled over what could be producing these powerful clusters of ...