New calculations predict that fast-moving heavy quarks experience rare, large momentum changes more often than a simple ...

Today, a NASA space telescope streaked back to Earth like a meteor. As NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports, it was a blazing end to ...

When he was in junior high school, Lapon often listened to Spitz's "Ai no Kotoba" (Words of Love).It wasn't that he thought ...

Crowded star clusters in the early Universe could have built giant stars, seeded black holes and fed the mysterious little ...

"To create matter from just after the universe was born, you have no choice but to collide heavy atomic nuclei"—this long-standing common sense is now being rewritten. One year after the first-ever ...

Colliding oxygen nuclei has produced evidence of the hot, dense matter that filled the universe shortly after the Big Bang.

Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have uncovered compelling new evidence that even relatively small atomic collisions can recreate the extraordinary state of matter that filled the universe ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have observed a galaxy with a ring of newborn stars as it appeared 2.1 ...

Astronomers discover three supermassive black holes in galaxy J0148-4214, with two on a collision course, revealing secrets ...

In our solar system's corner of the galaxy, stars rarely collide. It makes sense: Space is vast, and stars have room to roam.

Scientists at Leiden University have solved the mystery of why the planetary disks in the Orion Nebula appear so young.

From a distance, Arp 220 looks like a single galaxy with a brilliant center and enormous clouds of glowing material spreading into space. But the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed something far ...