Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.

There are a seemingly endless number of quantum states that describe quantum matter and the strange phenomena that emerge ...

Previous research detected the tiny particles in our brains, lungs, liver, kidneys and blood — plus in bodily fluids like semen and breast milk.

Since at least 2016, a rumor has circulated online that "a speck of dust is halfway between the size of" an atom and Earth.

"The claim that dust is halfway between an atom and Earth would be valid on a logarithmic scale for dust particles that are a ...

Why matter dominates over antimatter in our universe has long been a major cosmic mystery to physicists. A new finding by the ...

Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected relatively high levels of it in the ...

A long-elusive, hypothetical subatomic particle called the axion can be simulated and potentially detected in a type of thin material.

Explore the key moments in the history of quantum theory, from the early ideas of Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg to ...

As if atoms weren’t already mind-blowingly small, never mind subatomic particles, CERN researchers in the CMS Collaboration ...