Quantum sensing helps turn abstract physics into real-world technology

Precision shapes modern life in ways often taken for granted. Navigation systems guide travel, medical scans reveal hidden ...

Who is the 11-year-old taking on adult chess players in Madison?

Lincoln Olson is an up-and-coming star in Wisconsin’s chess scene. The Edgewood Campus School student has been playing ...
SETI Institute

How Clouds Hide Alien Worlds—and How Astronomers See Through Them

While telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can detect the chemical fingerprints of distant atmospheres, ...
University of California, Davis

Among the Academies: Questioning the Universe’s Origin Story

When Andreas Albrecht was a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, he was looking for an advisor in particle physics ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

School of Physics and Astronomy

There has never been a more exciting time to study the exciting discipline of physics, spanning the workings of the sub-atomic world to the ever-expanding universe. The BS Physics Program in the ...
The New York Times

Space and Astronomy

A refrigerator-size spacecraft will try to grab onto Swift and nudge it to a higher orbit, enabling it to continue observing powerful cosmic explosions. By Kenneth Chang The Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...
Labroots

Space & Astronomy

Space & Astronomy Your source for the latest astronomy news and space discoveries, as well as leading articles on space exploration, NASA, cosmology, our solar system and the universe. Delve into ...
Nature

Astrobiology articles from across Nature Portfolio

The returned samples from asteroids Bennu and Ryugu document a remarkably rich organic inventory, spanning from smaller molecules to complex macromolecular materials. This chemical diversity renews ...