Proposed U.S. space defenses against hypersonic nuclear missiles are unnecessary, impractical and would trigger a dangerous ...

The MIT research team believes that the future of nuclear fusion depends on understanding the mysteries of plasma. Therefore, ...

There's a new sun rising in China. Well, sort of. China's nuclear fusion reactor, called the Experimental Advanced ...

Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales simultaneously—ranging from hundreds down to fractions of a megaelectronvolt. A new study demonstrates that these drastically different scales can be ...

An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on ...

Called the Lévy walk (or in some cases the Lévy flight) after mathematician Paul Lévy, it is a type of random wandering that ...

PeV — has been detected by the underwater KM3NeT telescope, marking a pivotal moment in astrophysics. This tiny but powerful ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford, together with colleagues at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and at several other laboratories, have announced results from a new search ...

Physicists searching for “dark forces” unexpectedly discovered deformed atomic nuclei. When top research teams collaborate, ...

The results confirmed the original anomaly, but thanks to new nuclear theory calculations from researchers at TU Darmstadt, ...

Neutron stars, the collapsed remnants of massive stars, hold the densest matter in the universe. These cosmic objects are ...

The international team also used the data to get direct information about the deformation of the atomic nucleus in ytterbium ...