When a solar storm strikes Earth, it can disrupt technology that's vital for our daily lives. Solar storms occur when ...

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

A spectacular aurora display painted the skies above Europe on January 19, 2026, as seen from the International Space Station ...

Earth experienced a rare and dramatic space weather event in mid January 2026 when a powerful surge of solar radiation struck ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

However, it doesn't take long for a muon travelling at such high speeds to travel vast distances, and they can be used to revolutionize how mining companies work. According to the US Department of ...

A geomagnetic storm made the northern lights — the aurora borealis — visible as far south as Alabama and New Mexico Jan. 19.

Monday night featured the best outburst of the Northern Lights so far in 2026, with people as far south as Alabama capturing ...

Physicists have unveiled a new way to simulate a mysterious form of dark matter that can collide with itself but not with ...

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a jet of gas from a forming star shooting across the dark expanse. The ...

Proton collisions at the LHC appear wildly chaotic, but new data reveal a surprising underlying order. The findings confirm that a basic rule of quantum mechanics holds true even in extreme particle ...

Researchers at TU Wien have discovered a quantum system where energy and mass move with perfect efficiency. In an ultracold gas of atoms confined to a single line, countless collisions occur—but ...