For decades, astronomers have been watching WOH G64, an enormous heavyweight star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy ...

The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a novel artificial ...

Have you been wondering why the northern lights are suddenly all over social media — and in the news? Noticed an unusually ...

You probably check the outdoor air quality index before opening a window or going for a run, right? Yet here's something most ...

Last month saw an unusual phenomenon in the sky. The northern lights were visible in the south east. writes Dr James Williams.

A distant star has just been caught in the act of destroying one of its own worlds, a violent finale astronomers have long ...

Sun dogs are relatively common in Russia, particularly in areas with extreme winter conditions such as Siberia, Sakhalin, and ...

The universe is full of spectacular sights, from aurora on Earth and Jupiter to the solar flares that cause them, to distant ...