Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has ...

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...

Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a new method that allows researchers to examine ...

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

Scientist and physicist Ernest Rutherford, known as “the father of nuclear physics”, was the most respected Kiwi of his day.

Neutron stars pack extreme mass into tiny volumes. Scientists explore how compact they can become before collapsing into ...