At a convenience store in South Boston, tall and colorful 1-liter canisters of nitrous oxide gas cover the front countertops.

A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years – an astronomical blink of an eye – which suggests it may ...

"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic ...

Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a team of scientists have compiled the largest sample ...

The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

A bill would make it a crime to produce, manufacture, buy, or sell the products, sometimes called whippets, for the prohibited uses.

Sagittarius A*, our galaxy's supermassive black hole, is constantly producing strange eruptions. Astronomers are using the James Webb Space Telescope to find out why.

New findings explain the Phoenix cluster's mysterious starburst. Data confirm the cluster is actively cooling and able to generate a huge amount of stellar fuel on its own.

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

If passed by the General Assembly, the law would require sellers to make diligent inquiries to verify that buyers are 18 or ...

Senate Bill 78 sponsored, by Sen. April Weaver, aims to regulate the sale and possession of items containing nitrous oxide gas. “This bill just simply brings some common sense back and protects ...

Nitrous oxide sold in colorful tanks with candy-like flavors that consumers are inhaling to get high is creating a “veritable ...