New research shows cosmic rays can break water underground, releasing energy that may sustain life deep beneath ice, rock, or alien crusts.

For centuries, lightning has fascinated scientists and laypeople alike. A groundbreaking study from Los Alamos National Laboratory suggests that cosmic-ray showers, high-energy particles originating ...

A newly published study backs the idea that we're living in a giant void rather than having lots of different galaxies in our ...

The mysterious cosmic explosion has been traced to a massive stellar explosion. A global team of astrophysicists, led by researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Leicester ...

Learn how cosmic rays, normally seen as a threat to humans in space, may be sustaining life beneath the surface of Mars and ...

Astronomers have re-examined the biggest explosion ever seen, possibly the most massive explosion since the Big Bang, to ...

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency ...

Experts have claimed mankind will die in a world-ending 'cosmic hell' and have made a prediction on when it will happen.

The first antimatter qubit will help search for differences between matter and antimatter ...

The Fantastic Four are Marvel Comics First Family and iconic superheroes, but they are also, above all, explorers of the multiverse.

At high doses, cosmic rays can tear through DNA molecules and damage biological tissue. Prolonged exposure to cosmic ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the thing, point telescopes at it, argue about it. It's going to be fun." ...