Tuesday’s storms powered through the Chicago area at a unusual pace, bringing with them multiple tornado spin-ups and straight line winds that reached up to 100 mph. The Storm Prediction Center ...

A fast-moving line of severe thunderstorms known as a derecho swept across northern Illinois on Aug. 11, battering the ...

A hailstorm can turn a summer afternoon violent in minutes, pelting rooftops and cars with ice hurled down from towering clouds. In the most extreme cases the ice arrives not as harmless pea-sized ...

You may have heard the phrase “we are made of star-stuff.” This statement by the astronomer Carl Sagan refers to the fact ...

A popular myth about black holes is that they act like giant cosmic vacuum cleaners, sucking in everything around them. But Wladimir Lyra's research found a new mechanism around supermassive black ...

Basic biology courses teach that cells contain organelles—such as the nucleus, mitochondria and Golgi apparatus—set apart by ...

Betelgeuse has always been something of a mystery. And by “mystery,” I mean a source of endless fun, fascination and ...

New images from the James Webb telescope show a galaxy with a trio of supermassive black holes. Two of them appear to be locked in a tight tango.

Physicists with the Beijing Spectrometer III (BES III) experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence of the existence of so-called glueballs, an elusive composite particle made entirely of gluons ...