Just after 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, final beams of oxygen ions—oxygen atoms stripped of their electrons—circulated ...

Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus in 1986 recorded radiation levels so extreme they baffled scientists for nearly 40 years. New research suggests the spacecraft caught Uranus during a rare solar wind event ...

In collaboration with international partners, researchers at the University of Stuttgart have experimentally demonstrated a ...

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of ...

The audit concludes that the Selection-Stitch Model offers something modern physics has lacked for decades: Simplicity. It replaces dozens of arbitrary parameters with a single, rigid geometry. It ...

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

The Pauli exclusion principle is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics and is essential for the structure and stability of matter. Now an international collaboration of physicists ...

SAN JOSE - Jaxon Smith-Njigba possesses an uncommon form of virtuosity that is both undeniable and ambiguous. His talent dawns slowly even on experts. He runs fast, but not faster than many NFL wide ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

Watching, modeling and even playing winter sports help students internalize physics concepts, including acceleration, ...

NASA is currently targeting Feb. 8 for Artemis 2's liftoff, which will take place from Launch Complex-39B at Kennedy Space ...

Physicist Paul Davies’s Quantum 2.0: The past, present and future of quantum physics ends on a beautiful note. “To be aware of the quantum world is to glimpse something of the majesty and elegance of ...