If this scenario plays out, “the world as we know it would collapse like a house of cards,” says one theoretical physicist.

Scientists have found that explosions in highly magnetised neutron stars, called magnetars, could have created gold in the universe ... singular atoms can quickly capture a number of neutrons ...

No matter what you do, matter can neither be created nor destroyed. This property of the universe is called the law of ...

Here, in no particular order, are 35 of the best Webb images we've seen to date ... young stars are energizing hydrogen atoms. Webb doesn't see the universe as we do—it operates outside of ...

Compared with the universe as a whole, Earth is quite young at 4.5 billion years old. Scientists arrived at this number because of evidence from radiometric dating, which measures the rate of ...

Over four months, March through June 1905, Albert Einstein produced four papers that revolutionized science. One explained how to measure the size of molecules in a liquid, a second posited how to ...

C. Cuillandre Euclid’s first data release offers a breathtaking glimpse into our universe, revealing over 26 million galaxies and showcasing the telescope’s unprecedented precision in the visible and ...

Rex Features via AP Images But by 1930 ... While spectacularly successful at predicting the behavior of atoms and subatomic particles, the quantum laws looked askance at Einstein’s formulation ...

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal ...

Under ultracold conditions, bosons form a curious state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), in which all the ...