Andrea Richard receives funding from the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration.

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere ...

As a science reporter for the New York Times, Katrina Miller writes about the universe and how the pursuit of understanding ...

Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the ...

Irene Curie was born in Paris, France, in 1897. In an unusual schooling setup, Irene was one of a group of children taught by ...

In the 30 years since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, more than 6,000 planets outside our Solar System have been catalogued. Two modern-day explorers explain how.

Gold, uranium, and other heavy elements on Earth did not form here. They were born in the violent deaths of massive stars and the collisions of neutron stars, traveling across the galaxy before ...

Everything around us is built from sets of chemical elements. From the air we breathe to the jewelry we wear. All of these ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic and luminous explosions in the universe. However, they are fleeting and often ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering and the University of ...