A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I ...

The Aurora Borealis was spotted in a large swath of states, including Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, ...

The first, obviously, was making functional electronic devices smaller than cells that can circulate in our blood. “Previous ...

Researcher Valentin Bickel wanted to know just how intense winds can be on the Red Planet. Using data obtained by the Mars ...

The dream of creating game-changing quantum computers—supermachines that encode information in single atoms rather than ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

Particles as different as soap bubbles and ball bearings can be made to arrange themselves in exactly the same way, according ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals ...

Arctic sea ice is disappearing fast, and scientists have turned to an unexpected cosmic clue—space dust—to uncover how ice ...

The northern lights can be seen in different colors, each color is based on the height and type of molecules hit by the charged sun electrons. The most common colors are green & yellow as the ...

“The sun has a solar cycle that creates a solar maximum and minimum. Right now, we’re coming off a solar maximum, which means ...

The process begins with the sun sending energy toward earth. David Malaspina, Assistant Professor at the University of ...