New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

There’s still work to be done as the researchers move to the next step in the process. Scientists make breakthrough discovery ...

Everything in the universe has a lifespan—but what about atoms? This video explores the science of matter's smallest pieces ...

For the first time, atoms of the metal indium have been chilled to temperatures a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero, a state where strange quantum phenomena begin to appear ...

However, in 2011, scientists discovered that some atoms, including oxygen, iron and other heavier elements, can be expelled from their host galaxy by supernovae and get caught up in giant cosmic ...

Atoms, those tiny constituents of matter, are invisible to the naked eye, but their interactions shape our reality. However, the notion of "contact" between them is much more complex than it seems.

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a new thermometer using atoms boosted to such high energy levels that they are a thousand times larger than normal.