Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

ARGONNE, Ill. – They came from outer space. And now, particles of comet dust that traveled from the far reaches of the solar system to Earth are traveling the United States, including a stop at the ...

NASA’s space telescopes tuned into an epic cosmic rock show, capturing new images of a space guitar that’s billowing in the wake of an erratic neutron star as it releases a flame-like streak across ...

NOAA scientists investigating the stratosphere have found that in addition to meteoric ‘space dust,’ the atmosphere more than seven miles above the surface is peppered with particles containing a ...

From mysterious dark matter to the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei, the past 12 months have reiterated just how strange particle physics can be. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

In December 2016, an experiment aboard the ISS reportedly recorded antihelium particles while analyzing cosmic rays. Although the results have yet to be confirmed, their existence would challenge our ...

An instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will soon launch on a NASA space mission where it will aim to collect interstellar dust particles hurtling through space at an average of 16 ...

Earth in space with a two blue fields emanating from it indicating the planet's magnetic field. Earth, our rocky, watery oasis in the cosmos is the ideal place for life to flourish for a number of ...

It turns out we can also move vast bands of radiation and make them into a barrier around our planet, even though we had no ...

Superdiffusive transport describes a regime in which the displacement of energetic particles deviates from classical Brownian motion, following a power‐law behaviour that results in far more rapid ...

If you've ever poured milk into a cup of coffee and watched it swirl, you've seen turbulence in action. This phenomenon is responsible for everything from a bumpy airplane trip to ocean currents. Now, ...

NASA's newest spacecraft aimed at studying the sun have captured a colorful "rainbow" in the warm glow of zodiacal light observed above Earth. The PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and ...