Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have for the first time detected tiny quartz crystals containing silica — a common mineral on Earth — within the atmosphere of a blazing hot exoplanet.

In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests and devices that purify cancer drugs. In an electric field, anything with ...

In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests ...

SpaceX launched a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office from Florida on Monday afternoon. As the rocket flew into nighttime over Europe, it left an unusual glowing spiral in the ...

A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I ...

What looks like ordinary sand, rocks or snow flowing in one direction can actually hide swirling currents that move in multiple directions beneath the surface. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

A ghostly swirl, pale in colour, drifted across the evening Massachusetts sky this week, drawing puzzled stares and a flood ...

A team has found that NASA's Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter frequently encounters giant swirling waves at the boundary between the solar wind and Jupiter's magnetosphere. The waves are an important ...