When NASA launched the Pioneer probes, they were met with an intriguing mystery. At around 20 astronomical units, both ...

Building large-scale quantum technologies requires reliable ways to connect individual quantum bits (qubits) without ...

By studying how light from eight distant quasars is gravitationally lensed as it propagates towards Earth, astronomers have ...

When an object from outside our star system zooms through our neighborhood in the solar system, it provides a rare ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen proposed a ...

Georgetown University researchers have discovered a new class of strong magnets that do not rely on rare-earth or precious metals—a breakthrough that could significantly advance clean energy ...

Atomic and molecular physics it the study of the properties, dynamics and interactions of the basic (but not fundamental) building blocks of matter. A crucial component of this is understanding the ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...