Fusion at high temperatures powers the sun and, if harnessed, could provide a potential source of energy here on Earth. But controlling fusion reactions has other benefits. The process also generates ...

Welcome to part three of my trilogy on stars' birth, life and death. In last week’s Starwatch column about the life of stars, I told you how stars cook up energy in their cores with nuclear fusion.

The writer is director of the Columbia Fusion Research Center and associate professor of applied physics at Columbia University. Imagine an energy source that can produce electric ...

Just as the dinosaurs didn't disappear but rather evolved into birds, cosmic dinosaurs in the form of the JWST's Little Red ...

Scientists have discovered a unique planetary system located 71 light-years away, featuring a red dwarf star orbited by a ...

Astronomers directly imaged a Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf 72 light-years away, making it the strongest candidate yet for the first known exomoon.

NASA's discovery of more than 6,000 confirmed exoplanets has transformed scientists' understanding of the universe, but one major prize has remained elusive: the first confirmed exomoon. Now, ...

President Trump has put Saudi Arabia on the path to enriching uranium on its own soil, a demand South Korea has been making ...

The U.S. has a 123 agreement with Saudi Arabia’s regional neighbor, the United Arab Emirates, though in the 2009 deal it ...

"We hope to understand where silver is formed in the universe, and how it has been distributed throughout the Milky Way over ...