The "milestone in solar physics" will help scientists better understand space weather and its impact on our tech-dependent ...

The Large Hadron Collider is heading for another extended shutdown, a planned pause that will take the world’s most powerful ...

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China's artificial sun breaks density limit that caused fusion experiments to fail, moving closer to clean energy.

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint of a crack in the ...

A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected breakdown of nuclear order in a remarkably symmetric atom, challenging long-standing ideas about where such effects can occur.