Two huge metal rings, each more than two miles around. Gold ions smashing together at more than 99.99 percent the speed of ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

Everything you see around you—your phone, your cat, the Earth, the stars—makes up just 15% of the mass in the universe. The remaining 85% is a ghost. We can’t see it, touch it, or sense it in any way.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

A NASA telescope may have detected evidence of dark matter, enabling it to be “‘seen” for the first time. Since dark matter was conceptualized nearly 100 years ago by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky, ...

An Ohio man allegedly ambushed his wife as she tried to move out, fatally shooting her two children and the father of the eldest before turning the gun on himself in a grisly apparent murder-suicide, ...

A father and his 7-year-old daughter died at a Northern California beach after a powerful wave swept the girl away, and he tried to save her, officials said Sunday. The family was visiting Garrapata ...

BIG SUR, Calif. -- A 39-year-old father and his 7-year-old daughter were found dead after a large wave pulled them into the ocean in Monterey County, California, authorities said. On Sunday afternoon, ...

The body of the 7-year-old girl who went missing after she was swept away into the ocean in Big Sur has been recovered, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office confirmed. The sheriff's office said the ...

Elton John is already one of the most successful solo acts of all time, and he will go down in history as such. As a result of his icon status, the masses will remember the bulk of John’s catalog for ...