Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of ...

One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses ...

Cosmic rays are particles from outer space that travel across the universe. They can be made by the sun, by other stars exploding, and even black holes. They move extremely fast, nearly the speed of ...

It's a disturbing thought: At this very moment, tiny crumbs of plastic are trickling through our bodies, a parade of unwelcome houseguests ready to take up residence in some tissue or organ. The ...

Tiny particles of plastic have been found everywhere — from the deepest place on the planet, the Mariana Trench, to the top of Mount Everest. And now more and more studies are finding that ...

Microscopic pieces of plastic are everywhere. Now, they've been found in bottled water in concentrations 10 to 100 times more than previously estimated. Researchers from Columbia University and ...

IceCube's detection of ghost particles is providing new data on how these neutrinos interact with Earth’s atmosphere and ...

Plastic water bottles contain particles that may be dangerous to your health. Here's what to know. (Getty Images) Scientists from Columbia University are raising alarm bells about the amount of small ...

Deep within the atoms that make up our bodies and even within the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei, are tiny particles called quarks. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Particles similar to axions, the leading candidate for dark matter that has long eluded detection, may have already been ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall, cadaver ...