A multi-institutional team of scientists used the Northwestern Experimental Underground Site (NEXUS) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to study bursts of charge across multiple ...

A new study revisits a century-old question about how turbulence starts. The findings could potentially influence not only aircraft engineering but even the design of mechanical heart valves, and ...

What governs the speed at which raindrops fall, sediment settles in river estuaries, and matter is ejected during a supernova? These questions circle around one, deceitfully simple factor: the rate at ...

The Milky Way isn't just drifting through a giant void in space untethered, but is embedded in a sheet of dark matter like a blueberry in a pancake, new research suggests.

This video explores the enigma of dark matter, an elusive substance believed to make up most of the universe's matter. While the universe is populated by visible stars and galaxies, much of its mass ...

New research suggests that the Milky Way is embedded in a sheet-like structure of dark matter, akin to a blueberry in a pancake.

Scientists discovered the Milky Way lies within a vast flat dark-matter sheet spanning about 32 million light-years.

Every year, AIP awards physical scientists for their leadership and excellence. In recognition of women in the physical ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...