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

Much like your hands, many molecules have left and right versions. These pairs of molecules — named “chiral” from the Greek ...

Comet Lemon will be in the heart of the constellation Boötes, the Herdsman, as it makes its closest approach to Earth on Oct.

Take Racing Bulls’ Isack Hadjar. His helmet is a nod to physics, a fundamental science that’s deeply woven into the makeup of ...

"This is the moment where the metal detector has gone off and you've dug up something shiny. You still need to find out ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...

You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don't participate in chemical bonding.

In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...

When two neutron stars collide, they unleash some of the most powerful forces in the universe, creating ripples in spacetime, showers of radiation, and even the building blocks of gold and platinum.

It's not easy being a bird in New York City, with the near-constant risk of running into a glass building or window, getting run over by traffic, and other urban hazards. But a group of volunteers ...

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was always taught that one’s bread plate is placed to the left. Whenever I am with a large group at a table at a wedding (or another function), at least one person always takes ...