Physics

Is it chicken or is it fish? While some of us may never unravel the existential mysteries of Starkist canned tuna, according to early...

NASA is considering a return to the farthest reaches of our solar system with new grants for funding a research expedition to Pluto,...

Rockets as we know them leverage Newton's third law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. As propellent combusts...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Stockholm University are teaming up to scan for dark matter using plasma, and...

Yesterday NASA released a breathtaking new visualization of a black hole in motion.“Until very recently, these visualizations were...

We're not sure what makes for a slower news day: a weather expert blowing up a watermelon with rubber bands or... us, writing a story...

Well, that was unexpected.Nobody had any idea that there is a halo of cool gas circling the black hole at the center of our galaxy...

Two young exoplanets have been directly imaged cutting a swath through the protoplanetary disc surrounding a newborn star, according...

A recent NASA Hubble photograph reveals that the Messier 90 galaxy is headed our way, according to reports. This is a rare thing...

Ever thrown something into the fire to see if it would melt? If you were a kid trying to melt rocks, the process was likely pretty...

A team of engineers from NASA and MIT have designed, built, and tested a new type of aircraft wing constructed from thousands of...

Were it not for Reddit – and the tendency of its visitors to repost ancient video in search of sweet, sweet karma points – many of...

A team of astronomers using data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a pair of gigantic...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have demonstrated that a laser can transmit an audible message to a person without any type of receiver...

Before you get too excited: none of us will be alive to witness this, so you'll have to use your imagination to picture what it would...

There are a million ways to die in space (as Cas Anvar from The Expanse is happy to point out), but one of the most terrifying has to...

On the heels of the recent claim that dark matter is really a kind of "dark fluid," a team of researchers published a new study that...

Astrophysicists at Durham University have some bad news for anyone who cares about the distant future of this galaxy. Based on the...

While you were probably recovering from the night before on New Year's Day, NASA was making history again. The US space agency...

When considering models of the universe, there is one very important factor that researchers have struggled with: the presence of...