Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

The masses of fundamental particles such as the Z and W bosons could have arisen from the twisted geometry of hidden ...

Immediately after a 19-year-old shot and killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at a Florida high school on Valentine’s Day, people leaped to explain what had caused the latest mass slaughter. By now, ...

In science, there are thousands of ways to measure the world around us that the average person may never encounter. For example: Pascals to measure pressure, Candles to measure light intensity, and ...

There’s something amiss with a mass. A new measurement of the mass of an elementary particle, the W boson, has defied expectations. The result hints at a possible flaw in physicists’ otherwise ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- A California think tank has named Massachusetts number one on their State Technology and Science Index-- again. Mass. has held the top slot since 2002. The Milken Institute creates ...