The Standard Model (SM), the main physics framework describing elementary particles and the forces driving them, outlines key patterns in physical interactions referred to as gauge symmetries. One of ...

A new adaptive optics technology is set to transform gravitational-wave detection, allowing LIGO and future observatories like Cosmic Explorer to reach new heights. By correcting mirror distortions, ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

There is a new exhibit at the University of Arizona Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium: Universe of Science. It features ...

From grand and elusive creatures to small and bizarre ones, David Attenborough's BBC docuseries offers wonders in every frame. Michelle Yoeh plays an evil emperor in a new Star Trek made-for-TV movie.

That's got to be worth a try, right? MINOR SPOILERS FOR "STAR TREK: SECTION 31" AHEAD "Star Trek: Section 31"'s opening ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

In a paper published earlier this month in Physical Review Letters, a team of physicists led by Jonathan Richardson of the ...

The science fiction genre has dominated TV since the 1950s, producing an array of legendary shows. Sci-fi stories often take place in the future, illustrating a portrait of humanity when the likes of ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

Our existence doesn’t really make sense. When the Universe was created, matter and a substance called antimatter should have obliterated each other. But that didn’t happen. If scientists can ...