In recent years, whenever astronomers have gazed into the night sky, they’ve noticed something peculiar: Some of its massive stars—the true titans of the cosmos—appear to be missing. The largest of ...

Scientists have just managed to reproduce a nuclear reaction that had never been observed directly before. The experiment focuses on p-nuclei, unusual proton-rich isotopes that do not fit into the ...

What if we tell you that researchers have found something interstellar buried in the ice in Antarctica? One possibility is the plot of The Thing; the other is a mystery that has puzzled scientists for ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...