Physicists have used a novel technique to observe individual atoms interacting in free space for the first time ever. The new ...

Future space missions could use quantum technologies to help us understand the physical laws that govern the universe, ...

Astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions.

The solar gravitation lens (SGL) has much potential as a telescope. This point in space, located about 650 AU away from the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, a team of ...

Quantum ideas describe particles and fields in tiny packages, but general relativity paints gravity as smooth curves in space ...

Researchers have developed a new quantum theory of gravity which describes gravity in a way that's compatible with the Standard Model of particle physics, opening the door to an improved understanding ...

Researchers captured the first-ever images of atoms freely interacting in space, offering a rare glimpse into quantum ...

Under ultracold conditions, bosons form a curious state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), in which all the ...

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal ...

Physicists have pulled off a cosmic simulation that cracks open one of the universe’s most mind-bending mysteries: are we ...

A brilliant flash from deep space once baffled scientists. But now, that mystery has been solved—and it reshapes what we know ...