SCIENCE

As sunlight strikes Earth from space, it doesn’t fall on the planet equally in all locations. The Earth has a three-dimensional,…

This conceptual image shows meteoroids delivering all five of the nucleobases found in life processes to ancient Earth. All the nucleobases…

The farther away we observe, the closer in time we find ourselves looking near the start of the hot Big Bang.…

When the very first stars form in the Universe, they form out of hydrogen and helium alone. But when that first…

X-ray emissions that are large, extended, and structure-rich highlight a variety of supernovae seen in the galaxy. Some of these are…

The near-infrared JWST view (with NIRCam) of the Ring Nebula showcases tendril-like filaments emerging from the main ring, a thin series…

Whether elementary or composite, all known particles can annihilate with their antiparticle counterparts. In some cases, particles are matter and antiparticles…

This view, of the Taurus Molecular Cloud of gas taken with the ESA’s Herschel space observatory, shows the types of overdensities…

This 1986 photograph of Halley’s comet, taken from Easter Island on March 8 of that year, is likely the best view…

Quantum gravity attempts to combine Einstein’s General theory of Relativity with quantum mechanics. Quantum corrections to classical gravity are visualized as…