SCIENCE

The longer a photon’s wavelength is, the lower in energy it is. But all photons, regardless of wavelength/energy, move at the…

This image shows the expected signature of a Higgs boson decaying to bottom-quark jets around the collision point inside a muon…

This time-lapse photograph shows several Perseid meteors all pointing away from the same area of the sky: the radiant of the…

This multicolored image of colliding galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1–2403 shows optical data from Hubble plus X-ray data (pink) from Chandra and…

This set of illustrations explains how a large black hole can form from the direct collapse of a massive cloud of…

In 2023, Fermilab’s Muon g-2 collaboration announced their latest results, which were consistent with previous experimental results but had only half…

Time is normally something we measure with clocks: devices that record its passage from one moment to the next. While there…

This portrait of astronomer John Couch Adams, drawn by J.S. Stodart after a photograph by J.E. Mayall. Adams, although initially blamed…

Over time, the Sun loses mass through the emission of solar wind particles and the process of internal nuclear fusion. This…

For the first several billion years of our Universe’s history, the Universe’s expansion rate was decreasing and distant galaxies slow in…