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

Interstellar maps can help scientists find patterns that tell them about fundamental chemical processes in the cosmos.

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 ...

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 ...

The building blocks of rocky planets may have begun forming just 100 million years after the Big Bang—long before the first galaxies even existed—according to new research from the University of ...

First glimpsed as “little red dots” in deep-space images from the James Webb Space Telescope, these giant, gas-shrouded black holes are full of surprises ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Scientists have predicted the existence of a particle made of gluons for a long time, but detecting it has taken decades.