Scientists have long held that star formation creates ionized carbon giving vital information for understanding our universe. But a new study, led by Universities Space Research Association’s Robert ...

A jet of weakly ionized gas molecules produces a more stable deformation on a liquid surface than a neutral gas jet. Blowing through a straw creates a small dimple on the surface of a drink. This ...

The mysteries of a strange era in the universe's history may have been uncovered by scientists. This "epoch of reionization" was a period in the early universe's history when the first stars and ...

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In ...