The coldest and densest molecular gas clouds in the interstellar medium can have temperatures of 10 K (-505 °F/-263 °C), ...

A “natural history” approach to space exploration would take into account instead developments in the fields of physics, ...

Space is cold and has abundant solar energy — the very things data centers need. Experts tell us it’s not that simple.

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

For centuries, the principle of symmetry has guided physicists towards more fundamental truths, but now a slew of shocking findings suggest a far stranger idea from quantum theory could be a deeper dr ...

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...