The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...

Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether ...

Excitons—bound pairs of electrons and an electron hole—are quasiparticles that can arise in solids. While so-called "bright" ...

Study shows how photolithography techniques can be used to not just make a micron-scale shape, but control it, too.

A series of research findings by Chinese scientists on the samples collected by the Chang'e-6 mission from the moon's far ...

Magnetic field data collected by ESA's Swarm satellites and other sources has been coverted into these frightening sounds.

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

Today will be the shortest day of your life. Our lives, too. Everybody's lives. According to those who keep up with atomic ...

Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

The near $16-million reduction would impact "our national security, global positioning, and economic growth," wrote U.S.Rep.