Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

X-ray beams aren't used just by doctors to see inside your body and tell whether you have a broken bone. More powerful beams ...

MIT researchers found that metals retain hidden atomic patterns once believed to vanish during manufacturing. These patterns ...

Scientists found unusual sulfur in moon samples from Apollo 17. The discovery reveals new clues about the Moon’s ancient ...

Unstable atoms emit fast-moving particles that can damage cells in the human body. Some atoms are far more unstable than ...

MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...

JWST's detection of phosphine on a brown dwarf, also known as a "failed star," could have repercussions for the claimed detection of the molecule on Venus.

When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and ...

Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the ...

Scientists have discovered that the far side of the Moon is colder deep within its interior than the side that always faces ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...