Nearly every object we interact with in our lives has a mass, but where does this mass come from? Modern physics says matter ...

Scientists predict new carbon-hydrogen matter state that conducts electricity directionally under extreme pressures found in ...

A new study suggests that faint, ancient ripples in spacetime may hold the key to one of physics’ greatest mysteries.

If NASA’s ambitious lunar exploration plans succeed, scientists will cover the moon with sensors—and find answers to several ...

Dark matter constitutes one of the great mysteries of modern cosmology. Invisible yet omnipresent, it shapes galaxy formation ...

Earth may have won a cosmic chemistry lottery. Researchers found that during the planet’s earliest formation, oxygen had to be in an extremely narrow “Goldilocks zone” for two life-essential elements, ...

For decades, scientists have tried and failed to explain how the force that binds the heart of atoms together really works.

The early universe is absolutely so far outside our understanding of how the world works it's hard to describe in words. Back ...