We still don't fully understand what triggers lightning. A new study suggests that showers of cosmic rays may be the missing ...

Some 30 evenings a year, Astronomer Maarten Schmidt, 36, struggles with an electrically heated flight suit and enters the great, silvery dome of California’s Mount Palomar Observatory.

If you’re a fan of Star Trek or some other sci-fi universe, you’ve almost certainly heard of antimatter, the incredibly volatile and energetic opposite of normal matter fabled for its ...

Part two of a series on the future of space exploration. We will explore exotic methods of propulsion that could propel us to neighboring star systems and beyond. What will these future propulsion ...

The rocket, launched by Isar Aerospace from within the Arctic Circle at a spaceport on the icy Norwegian island of Andøya, was the first orbital flight outside of Russia to leave continental Europe.

A new analysis of astronomical data suggests unknown physics is at work assisting dark energy in acting almost as ...

(via Fermilab) Scientists study antimatter, investigating the ways in which it acts like ordinary matter and the ways in which it differs. Antimatter is the opposite of ordinary matter and, when ...

Physicists have, for the first time, seen a matter particle from the proton family behave in a fundamentally different way from its antimatter twin. The finding — which fits with behaviours ...

SpaceX is scheduled to launch two rockets from Florida's Space Coast on Sunday, March 30, and Monday, March 31. The first launch will deploy Starlink satellites, while the second will carry four ...