SCIENCE

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…

This visualization shows what the interior of a rotating (Kerr) black hole looks like, from the perspective of an observer who…

From anywhere in the Universe, any object that’s in free-fall will have its trajectory determined by the force of gravity: defined…

Bubble chamber tracks from Fermilab, revealing the charge, mass, energy and momentum of the particles and antiparticle created. This recreates similar…

At high temperatures, large densities, or both, there are no stable baryons (combinations of three quarks in bound states) anymore, like…

At the high temperatures achieved in the very young Universe, not only can particles and photons be spontaneously created, given enough…

This reconstruction of particle tracks shows a candidate Higgs event in the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.…