physics

In January 2020, a second-floor lab at Northwestern University was filled with the mild-mannered clacking of three…

“Don’t try to understand it,” a scientist tells the protagonist of Tenet, as she briefly explains the physics of…

Perhaps there is a world, in a distant galaxy, where I am being paid $6,000 a word to write this introduction. In…

Only a small handful of objects are known to pose a serious threat to Earth, and the gigantic asteroid Apophis is…

The longest verifiable home run in professional baseball history was hit by Joey Meyer of the minor league Denver…

Black holes aren’t supposed to leak any light when they smash into each other—or at least that’s what physicists…

A new study has found that nuclear radiation during Cold War-era weapons testing could have induced significant…

After designing a curved basketball backboard that redirects every shot through the hoop, Shane Wighton has…

This black hole—if that’s really what it is—is so close to Earth that you can see its star system without a…

Astronomers and physicists continue to pursue the answers to the universe’s deepest questions, but on many matters,…

Astronomers think they’ve found an entire population of asteroids originating from outside our solar system,…

Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist, physicist, and CEO of software company Wolfram Research (behind Wolfram Alpha…

Does it really take years of practice and dedication on the basketball court to compete with the talents of NBA…

Particle physicists have released the results of a decade-long search, taking us a crucial step closer toward…

A typical neutron star measures 22 kilometers (13.6 miles) wide, according to new research. It’s the most accurate…

Business conglomerate and defense contractor Honeywell announced today that it will bring what it claims is the most…

Now that most of the world’s major problems have been resolved, science is turning its attention to the less…

A task force organized by the American Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit organization made up of other American…

You enter a cave. At the end of a dark corridor, you encounter a pair of sealed chambers. Inside each chamber is an…

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered evidence of small clumps of dark matter warping the…