For generations, school posters have sorted the Solar System into tidy boxes: four small rocky planets near the Sun, two huge gas planets farther out, and, at the edge, a pair of “ice giants” – Uranus ...
The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...
Researchers at the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago have developed a framework that could yield more accurate ...
Eleven years after Musk promised an $85 million investment, SpaceX has surpassed that goal by about 16,000%. The company has ...
Physics World is delighted to announce its Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2025, which includes research in astronomy, antimatter, atomic and molecular physics and more. The Top Ten is the ...
Some stars explode into a nova quickly; others can take more than a month. Scientists are only beginning to understand why.
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...
The longest gamma-ray burst ever observed has UNC Chapel Hill astronomers questioning the very nature of these cosmic ...
The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) is pleased to announce the appointment ...
Current physics is speeding toward a breaking point, as astronomers confirm that the Hubble tension in new data.
A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...
For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...