Boom Supersonic's experimental aircraft made its first flight above California, as the company aims to develop a greener successor to the Concorde.
In Space Oddities , Harry Cliff explores the biggest unsolved mysteries in physics.
Computers have identified a material that's harder than diamonds. Making the stuff presents a tougher test.
The IceCube Observatory’s search for neutrinos has turned up a handful of promising signals.
The mergers of neutron stars might be extreme enough for new physics.
In Waves in an Impossible Sea , Matt Strassler explains how human life is intimately connected to the larger cosmos.
A bundle of magnets and glass had a slight but detectable gravitational pull, pushing scientists closer to the boundary between classical and quantum physics.
Gravastars within gravastars would be a mind-blowing answer to a conundrum established by Einstein.
An experiment involving superfluids showcases some wild phenonmenon.
JET's final nuclear fusion experiment produced a record-breaking 69 megajoules of heat. Nice.
That's a really long time, for a time crystal at least.
The excavation now clears the path for Fermilab’s neutrino detectors.
Born out of a thought experiment, this machine functions like an inside-out rocket.
The research has "changed the way we think about the structure of the proton," one scientist said.
A 54-atom golden knot is tighter than the knots in DNA and comes close to the theoretical limit of knot size.
An experiment compressed krypton atoms so tightly that they formed a 1-D strand.
NASA and Lockheed Martin showed off the X-59 supersonic plane in Palmdale, California, on Friday.
The needle-like X-59 will test whether it's possible to fly faster than sound without creating sonic booms.
NASA is rolling the X-59 plane out of its hangar on January 12. Here's how you can watch live.
Fusion energy scientists upgraded the KSTAR tokamak, allowing it to sustain its ridiculously hot plasma for longer.
