Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...

New spacecraft techniques propose using CubeSats, laser rangefinding, and precise Doppler measurements to determine the mass of potentially hazardous asteroids during flyby missions.

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Mars missions, Dr. Lulu Zhao shows how solar particles threaten our tech, and how AI is learning to forecast them.

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching spacecraft and a supercharged upper atmosphere.

Several massive multimillion dollar experiments should soon reveal more about the nature of these ghostly particles ...

Physicists at TU Wien have created an ultracold quantum gas where both energy and mass flow without any measurable loss, a result that defies the standard expectation that interacting quantum systems ...

We all have a concept of reality. We know what is “fact” and what isn’t. However, the truth of the matter is that the definition of “real” is a mere construct of the brain. If that didn’t blow your ...

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

The Schrödinger equation rewrote the rules of matter and forever changed the field of chemistry. Donald Truhlar, a chemist at the University of Minnesota, calls it the “greatest advance of the 20th ...

Tiny aerosol particles in the air play a big role in regulating how much sunlight our planet absorbs or reflects, and how clouds form above us. In a recent study, researchers found that extreme heat ...