Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

Nuclear power is rising to meet the demand for American energy. But building new reactors or even renewing licenses of ...

Atomic nuclei are often described as orderly systems. Certain numbers of protons or neutrons, called magic numbers, usually ...

Observations of the formation of light-nuclei from high-energy collisions may help in the hunt for dark matter.

When a massive star dies, astronomers expect a familiar chemical script: hydrogen and helium on the outside, heavier elements ...