Physics

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...

In a study published earlier this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers from Spain and the UK...

When reporting on Stephen Hawking's posthumous paper theorizing what happens to matter after falling into a black hole, New York...

If given the opportunity, most of us would jump at the chance to travel through time. It's something that sci-fi nerds and writers...

We've reported on Earth's magnetic field before, including studies claiming that the planet's poles may reverse at any time and...

Every few months, there seems to be a shocking new discovery or breakthrough theory that promises to finally lay bare the secrets of...

Sure, an Omega Speedmaster watch was accurate enough to time the rocket thrusts that returned the Apollo 13 astronauts to Earth, but...

Sometimes the smallest, most esoteric discoveries can lead to groundbreaking changes in science and technology--like Percy Spencer's...

The nearest yet-discovered black holes are still thousands of light years away from Earth, so getting to one and seeing it with our...

By 1972, the Vietnam War was close to its end, though it would still take three more years for Saigon to fall. In the wake of the...

A 'dark matter hurricane' sounds like something out of a comic book, but it's nevertheless real (as far as we know--dark matter is a...