As noted, the hypothetical concept proposed by this study using paleo-detectors to detect proton decay on the moon would ...

And within this meteorite are radioactive elements that decay at a precisely known rate ... And in the midst of this hellish brew, the moon was born. Beginning when I was about 11 years old ...

As large planetesimals grow, heat was released by repeated impacts and the radioactive decay of elements inside their minerals ... 60-175 million years after the solar system was born. After the ...

The Moon, Williams and Zugger say, has an orbit around Earth that isn't as neatly aligned with the equator as you might ...

New research suggests that dark matter decay could have helped black holes ... holes get a head start on growth suggests they are born directly from massive clouds of gas and dust.

The effects of the weak force were first discovered at the turn of the 20th century, in the place where it is most obviously at work: in radioactive beta decay. In the most common form of this ...

The mesmerising television coverage of the Apollo 11 Moon landing 50 years ago brought ... Getty Images "He was born in October 1893, so had grown up knowing roads with horse and buggy, and ...

farmers were busy this time of year and had to work after nightfall because many crops ripen in late summer and early autumn. With the start of moonlight farming, the harvest moon was born.

the Russian might have become the first person to walk on the Moon. Read the story of the first spacewalk, and how the mission nearly didn't come back to Earth. Born in the Siberian village of ...

The extra light has traditionally provided farmers with more time to pick (or harvest) their crops, and so the name "Harvest Moon" was born. Autumn is historically a busy time of year for farmers ...

This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos experimented with the old adage that brevity is the soul of wit. That’s right; this week, they’re all Quick Hacks, and that’s to ...