A new theory suggests fusion reactors could help scientists search for axions, mysterious particles that may explain dark ...

Though natural fertilizers made from treated sewage sludge are used to reintroduce nutrients onto agricultural fields, they bring along microplastic pollutants too. And according to a small-scale ...

Astrophysicists show how and when specific particles form and offers clues to questions that have troubled scientists since the 1940s. For decades, scientists have been trying to solve a vexing ...

The findings could help researchers predict dangerous space weather. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists may have ...

A vast cloud of energetic particles surrounding a cluster of galaxies that existed around four billion years after the Big Bang could help scientists discover how the early universe took shape. But ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...

A study by Dartmouth researchers proposes a new theory about the origin of dark matter, the mysterious and invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. They say the ...