Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

McKinley Museum planetarium director Suzie Dills says her trip to the Galileo museum in Italy was educational, and a thrill.

Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly enough, they can also briefly borrow their energy from empty space. The haziness ...

By using something called a quantum grid, scientists have found a clever way to simultaneously measure momentum and position ...

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air—up to 25 times its body length—to attach to flying insects uses static electricity ...

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and ...

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...

Machine learning is expanding scientists’ catalogs of quakes and refining maps of underground faults. It also promises to ...

As scientists get closer to putting humans on Mars, the need to understand why clocks tick faster on the red planet is more ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...

Japanese scientists simulated faint 21-centimeter radio waves from the Universe’s “Dark Ages,” offering a potential way to detect dark matter. About 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe emerged in a ...

Executives with a combined 130+ years of tenure on the company’s decades of work to get people to talk to their PCs—and why ...