JWST reveals EC 53 protostar forges silicates in a hot disk and sends them out through "cosmic highways." ...

Wrapped in warm sweaters and kitted out in hiking boots, the small group chatted and laughed before setting out on an ...

Crystallization is a well-explored natural phenomenon where atoms or molecules arrange themselves into highly organized solid ...

For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has seen a young star forge crystals in blazing heat and hurl them to ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from ...

A joint China–US research team has developed a self-etching fabrication method that allows intricate patterning of 2D perovskite materials for the first time.

Webb data explains how heat-formed crystal minerals end up in icy comets by tracking their journey around a young, actively forming star.

Residents of Russia's Sakhalin region were treated to a surreal sight recently: what looked like two suns rising side by side in the morning sky. The .

A Spanish scientist believes he has finally solved a longstanding mystery about ice that causes the different shapes ice crystals form.

Sundogs, also known as mock suns or parhelia, are bright patches of light that appear to the left, right, or sometimes on both sides of the real sun.

Snow is made of tiny ice crystals that can transform into a variety of intricate symmetrical patterns forming a beautiful ...

Louis E. Brus, a chemist and Nobel laureate who discovered quantum dots, tiny crystals that emit various colors of light ...